U.S. government starts to unmuzzle the CIA’s torture victims
Huffington Post reports: For years, Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ memories of their time in CIA custody have been considered classified state secrets. Abu Zubaydah’s lawyers can’t talk publicly about how...
View ArticleA rebuke to military tribunals
An editorial in the New York Times says: In 2008, Ali al-Bahlul, a propagandist for Al Qaeda who has been held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since early 2002, was convicted by the military tribunal there...
View ArticleCIA photos of ‘black sites’ could complicate Gitmo trials
The Washington Post reports: Military prosecutors this year learned about a massive cache of CIA photographs of its former overseas “black sites” while reviewing material collected for the Senate...
View ArticleObama’s plan for Guantánamo is seen faltering
The New York Times reports: President Obama is enjoying a winning streak lately, with the Supreme Court reaffirming his signature health care law and Iran agreeing to curbs on its nuclear program. But...
View ArticleThe Pentagon is keeping half of Gitmo locked up — against the White House’s...
The Daily Beast reports: The White House wants to quickly cut the number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. One man is standing in the way: President Obama’s Defense Secretary, Ash Carter. Carter and the...
View ArticleThe Pentagon ignores Obama’s order to release Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo
Clive Stafford Smith writes: Recent history demonstrates that if President Barack Obama, arguably the most powerful person on planet Earth, wants to prioritize almost anything – from pardoning 46...
View ArticleOnly three of 116 Guantánamo detainees were captured by U.S. forces
The Guardian reports: Only three of the 116 men still detained at Guantánamo Bay were apprehended by US forces, a Guardian review of military documents has uncovered. The foundations of the guilt of...
View Article‘I have become a body without a soul’: 14 years detained in Guantánamo
Pardiss Kebriaei writes: I feel like there is a heavy weight on my chest – it’s as if I’m breathing through a needle hole. And then I ask myself, “If I write or say something, is anybody going to...
View ArticleGuantánamo Bay lawyers call bluff on Obama’s promise to close prison
The Guardian reports: Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been held at the camp in Cuba for up to 14 years without charge or trial have accused President Obama of stalling on his...
View ArticlePentagon thwarts Obama’s effort to close Guantanamo
Reuters reports: In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country....
View ArticleKaren Greenberg: No justice at Gitmo
With only nine months to go, in the fashion of modern presidents, Barack Obama is already planning his post-presidential library, museum, and foundation complex. Such institutions only seem to grow...
View ArticlePrisoner’s letters document tragedy and hope inside Guantánamo
The Intercept reports: On April 16, the Department of Defense issued a short press release announcing that Mohammed al-Hamiri, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantánamo Bay, had been transferred for release....
View ArticleGuantánamo lawyers deny colluding with judge in key 9/11 case
The Guardian reports: The military lawyers prosecuting the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks have struck back against accusations that they colluded with a military judge to destroy...
View ArticleHow Obama left the door open for Trump to resume torture
The New York Times reports: As a presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump vowed to refill the cells of the Guantánamo Bay prison and said American terrorism suspects should be sent there for military...
View ArticleMike Pompeo, Trump’s pick for CIA director, could take the agency back to its...
Vox reports: President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas to head the Central Intelligence Agency, putting a hawkish lawmaker who favors brutally interrogating...
View ArticleNeil Gorsuch helped defend disputed Bush-era terror policies
The New York Times reports: In December 2005, Congress handed President George W. Bush a significant defeat by tightening legal restrictions against torture in a law called the Detainee Treatment Act....
View ArticleGuantánamo Diary
Christian Lorentzen reviews Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi: In the autumn of 2001 Mohamedou Ould Slahi was working in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, setting up computer networks. He...
View ArticleFrom Gitmo to an American supermax, the horrors of solitary confinement
Ted Conover writes: I first visited the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in April 2003. The “war on terror” prisoners, most of them captured in Afghanistan, had begun to arrive 15 months earlier. They...
View ArticleGuantánamo Diary: torture and detention without charge
Listen to more extracts from Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary here.
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