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June 2007
- Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases
  
  Reuters | Jun 29, 07 10:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two Guantanamo Bay detainees will have their say before the Supreme Court, which today unexpectedly agreed to hear their cases in the term that begins this fall. The prisoners want permission to challenge their indefinite confinement in federal court. The high court had rejected an identical appeal in April, and the reversal is the first such action in decades, Reuters reports. More »
- White House Splits Over Closing Gitmo
  
  Washington Post | Jun 22, 07 5:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush is under mounting pressure to shut the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but top aides remain deeply divided over the fate of 375 detainees there. Bush has said he wants to the close the prison, but WaPo reports senior officials including Dick Cheney are opposed to shipping detainees to the US where they'd have expanded rights. More »
- CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics
  
  Salon | Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed, the CIA link is a revelation. More »
- 6 Guantanamo Detainees Sent Home
  
  Associated Press | Jun 20, 07 12:19 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Six prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base have been returned to their home countries—four to Tunisia and two to Yemen—the AP reports. One detainee's lawyer opposed the transfer on the grounds that he may face abuse for nonviolent political activism. More »
- Gitmo Charges Against 2 Are Dismissed
  
  New York Times | Jun 5, 07 9:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The system of military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees was thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges separately struck down charges against two detainees. The rulings were both on technicalities: the detainees, one 15 years old when captured 5 years ago, were designated "enemy combatants" and not "unlawful enemy combatants" as the law requires. More »
May 2007
- Gitmo Prisoner Kills Himself
  
  BBC | May 31, 07 4:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Saudi prisoner is dead at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide. US officials are still stingy on details, offering only that "the detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell by guards." They still haven't released a name. More »
- Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Australia
  
  Reuters | May 19, 07 9:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After five years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, David Hicks is back in his native Australia, where the convicted Al-Qaeda supporter will spend the next seven months in a maximum-security prison. His family and other supporters spent years campaigning for his release before Hicks pleaded guilty in March to providing material support to a terrorist organization. More »
- 'High-Value' Gitmo Detainee Alleges Torture
  
  Baltimore Sun | May 16, 07 12:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A 27-year-old Pakistani says he has been tortured since being moved last year from a CIA jail to the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Majid Khan, who once lived in Maryland, denies belonging to Al-Qaeda, but he was transferred to Cuba in September with 13 other "high-value" operatives after being in custody since 2003. More »
- Afghan Prison Is as Bad as Gitmo
  
  New Republic | May 3, 07 3:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The U.S. prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan is as bad as Guantanamo, reports Eliza Griswold in the New Republic . Prisoners are kept in barbed-wire cages, beaten, tortured, raped, and held without promise of trial. But unlike Gitmo, Bagram has no visiting congressional delegations. More »
April 2007
- Supreme Court Blocks Gitmo Detainees
  
  Associated Press | Apr 30, 07 2:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Supreme Court will not hear the cases of two Guantanamo detainees who sought to challenge the government's policy on military tribunals, it announced today. But it will hear arguments this fall in the case of a Texas death row inmate, a Mexican national whose appeal was supported by the Bush administration and the Mexican government. More »
- U.S. Unveils 7/7 Bombing Mastermind at Guantanamo
  
  Associated Press | Apr 28, 07 8:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - U.S. officials revealed yesterday they have Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, widely considered the architect of the 7/7 London transit attacks, in custody at Guantanamo Bay. The CIA nabbed al-Hadi as he tried to enter Iraq last year, and the announcement suggests—the Times reports—that he's been in a "ghost prison" since. More »
- Gitmo Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike
  
  New York Times | Apr 9, 07 11:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Thirteen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center are on hunger strike, protesting conditions at a maximum-security block known as Camp Six, where 160 inmates are locked in their 8-by-10-foot cells for at least 22 hours a day. It's the first major strike since early 2006, when Gitmo commanders started placing protesting detainees in restraint chairs to force feed them. More »
- Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Gitmo Detainees
  
  Washington Post | Apr 2, 07 12:44 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of detainees at Guantanamo who challenged the constitutionality of their confinement, the Washington Post reports. The rejected appeal questioned the validity of the military commissions law passed last year, and the legality of being held for more than five years with being charged. More »
March 2007
- Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty
  
  New York Times | Mar 27, 07 6:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - David Hicks became the first person convicted under President Bush's much-maligned military tribunal system after entering a surprise guilty plea to charges of providing material support to terrorists. The contentious proceedings may prove a new source of controversy, however, as the judge excluded Hicks' stwo civilian lawyers from court and shot down questions about his impartiality. More »
- Gates Pushed to Close Guantanamo
  
  New York Times | Mar 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Newly appointed Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed hard for shutting down the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but was blocked by Cheney and Gonzales, until Bush pulled the plug on the argument. Gates at least succeeded in halting a $100 million expansion of the prison he felt had become emblematic of War-on-Terror excess. More »
- Gitmo Tagged for Cuban Refugees
  
  Miami Herald | Mar 6, 07 11:01 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Anticipating that Fidel Castro's death will prompt thousands of Cubans to attempt to join their expatriate countrymen in South Florida, U.S. authorities are making space for them—in Cuba. The Miami Herald reports that the DOD has budgeted $18 million to expand its base at Guantanamo Bay to handle a wave of Cuban refugees they hope to intercept at sea--before they set foot on U.S. soil. More »