Two Algerians released from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay have not been heard from since they were transferred two weeks ago to the custody of the North African country, a human rights group said Monday.
Canadian officials knew in 2004 that a Toronto teen held at Guantánamo Bay was deprived of sleep for weeks to soften him up for interrogation, newly released documents say.
In a first, the Pentagon said this week it sent home two Algerians from the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The latest transfer operation from the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba reduced the prison camp population to ''approximately 265,'' according to a Pentagon statement issued late Wednesday.
Yemen's government held talks Thursday with a visiting U.S. delegation in hopes of securing the release of about 100 Yemenis held at the Guantánamo Bay prison, a Yemeni official said.
Detainees at the Guantánamo Bay naval base were turned into ''nomads'' in order to keep them in a state of agitation and to punish those who broke rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S.-run prison said Friday.
The detainees were recruited to fight while they were children and should therefore be treated as victims rather than combatants, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.
The former U.N. commander in Rwanda on Tuesday equated the United States and Canada with al Qaeda for their handling of a young Canadian detained at Guantánamo Bay.
The Pentagon has quietly pulled the plug on plans to post a former Guantánamo prison camps commander to Pakistan, The New York Times reported Friday.
An Al Jazeera cameraman freed from the U.S.-run Guantánamo Bay detention center described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen.
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Al-Arabiya television reported Thursday that a former Guantánamo detainee, a Kuwaiti set free some years ago, carried out a recent suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Canadian lawmakers began public hearings Tuesday on the detention and trial of a Canadian being held at Guantánamo Bay for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan as a teenager.
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Eight former Guantánamo detainees have filed lawsuits against the British government and security services, accusing them of complicity in their illegal detention and seeking millions of dollars in damages, a British newspaper has reported.
A British human rights group on Thursday presented Portuguese prosecutors with evidence that it claimed showed CIA secret rendition flights used Portuguese airports and airspace.
Prosecutors said Wednesday they have closed for a second time their investigation of allegations that two German special forces soldiers mistreated a German-born Turkish citizen while he was held in Afghanistan.
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A Spanish judge dropped charges against two former Guantánamo Bay detainees who recently returned home to Britain, saying their mental health had deteriorated so badly it would be cruel to prosecute them.
A senior U.S. official says an accord could be concluded soon with Algeria on the eventual repatriation of some Algerians held in the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
An Australian court on Tuesday relaxed some of the restrictions placed on a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who pleaded guilty to being an al Qaeda foot soldier in Afghanistan.
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Designer Vivienne Westwood returned to London Fashion Week after a nine-year absence, and one of her models wore the outspoken designer's political opinions on her tush.
The Bush administration is defending its decision to seek the death penalty for six detainees at Guantánamo accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks -- by invoking the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
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A former detainee who became the first person convicted by a post-9/11 military commission is fielding lucrative media offers for his story. He is now free in Australia.
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France is urging the United States to treat a Canadian war-on-terror captive at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as a minor, arguing that Omar Khadr was captured in Afghanistan at age 15.
Under U.S. pressure, Canada says it will rewrite a training manual that lists Guantánamo as a possible torture site.
Human rights activists picketed the U.S. Embassy in Manila on Friday to demand the closure of the U.S. prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, alleging hundreds of terrorist suspects were being tortured and held illegally.
The two British residents who were freed from the prison camps last month appeared in a London court on a request from Spain to investigate alleged ties to terror.
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Convicted al Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks has been freed from an Australian prison after completing a U.S.-imposed sentence for providing material support to terrorism.
A British resident released from the U.S. prison camps at Guantánamo Bay was reunited with his family for the first time in five years Thursday after a judge rejected a Spanish request to jail him.
Three longtime British residents held in the U.S. prison camps at Guantánamo Bay returned to Britain on Wednesday and two were arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, police said. The transfer leaves two former British residents still at the prison camps in southeast Cuba.
A Paris court convicted five former captives of the U.S. prison camps at Guantánamo Bay on terrorism-related charges, while ruling Wednesday that none of the men will serve any more time behind bars in France.
A rocket landed in a crowd of civilians near Kabul's police headquarters Saturday, and a truck full of rockets smuggled into the city under a pile of hay exploded nearby moments later, officials said. At least five people were killed and 24 wounded, officials said.
Malaysia has told the United States to study its own human rights record after it criticized the Southeast Asian nation for detaining without trial five ethnic Indian activists.
The military has sent home from Guantánamo Bay a Sudanese hospital worker whose lawyers campaigned in cyberspace for his freedom, in part by enlisting television's West Wing president to make a YouTube video. Detainee census dips below 300 for first time since February 15, 2002.
A lawyer for an Ethiopian captive at Guantánamo, who claims he was tortured when his interrogation was outsourced to Morocco, is asking the British government to intervene and help preserve alleged CIA photos that illustrate his treatment.
Australia's new government hinted Monday that it may scrap a refugee exchange deal with the United States that was aimed at deterring asylum seekers.
Four of five former British residents who have been held in the prison camps for years here will be freed soon under reported deals reached between the United States and the governments of Britain and Saudi Arabia.
The trial of six French former captives at the U.S. prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, resumed Monday, more than a year after it was suspended so the court could seek more information about secret interrogations of the suspects.
Citing a potential security risk, Denmark has rejected a U.S. request to take in one or more of 305 detainees the Pentagon now holds in the sprawling seafront prison camps compound.
The United States released Adel Abdu al Hakim last year along with four other Uighurs after admitting they were not terrorists. Authorities believed they'd face persecution if they were repatriated to China, so they were sent to Albania.
A Kenyan court rules that it has no jurisdiction in the case of captive in Guantanamo, but suggests Kenyan law be changed to ensure the rights of such suspects.
An Urdu interpreter for Guantánamo Bay detainees was among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2008, the scholarship trust announced Sunday. The University of Chicago graduate and who is studying law at Yale University is also a sometime poet and hip-hop artist
A Tunisian court on Thursday convicted a former detainee at the U.S. prison camps in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on terror charges, the Justice Ministry said.
Nearly 50 flights to or from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, passed through Spain's air space or landed in the country from 2002 until as recently as February, a newspaper reported Monday.
In the latest mission to reduce the captive population at this remote, offshore detention center, the military revealed Friday that it had shipped home 14 Saudi men who had likely been held here for years.
The Pentagon has sent home 11 more captives from its Guantánamo detention center in Cuba -- eight to Afghanistan and three to Jordan.
An Australian once held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay has lost a legal bid to regain his passport after a tribunal ruled that he posed a security threat, his lawyer said Friday.
A U.N. human rights expert called on the United States to put on trial or release all people detained as ''unlawful enemy combatants,'' move quickly to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, and abolish military commissions.
Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantánamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.
U.S. and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the groups said Friday.
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard denies making a deal with Vice President Dick Cheney to get an Australian al Qaeda foot soldier released from the prison camps at Guantánamo.
Australia's police chief would not confirm Tuesday whether his officers would seek to restrict the movements of a jailed al Qaeda foot soldier after he is released from prison.
Cubans opened an election cycle Sunday that will lead to a decision next year on whether ailing leader Fidel Castro will remain atop the communist-run island's supreme governing body.
A U.S. federal judge in Washington has blocked the Pentagon from transferring a Guantánamo Bay detainee to Tunisia, where he allegedly faces torture, according to a ruling unsealed Tuesday that marked a milestone in the treatment of detainees.
David Hicks, the lone Guantánamo captive convicted of a war crime, is getting special counseling ahead of his December release from a prison in his native Australia, a newspaper reports in its Monday's editions.
Fifty-five Saudi Arabian men who have been sent to their homeland from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay will receive about $2,600 each to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
A Mauritanian man who was held for nearly five years at the U.S. prison camps at Guantánamo on Friday accused American soldiers of desecrating the Koran by urinating and stepping on it.
In the midst of U.S. efforts to thin its Guantánamo prison population, Britain is asking the White House to free five former British residents who have been held for years as war-on-terror captives at the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
The United States has sent home to Saudi Arabia 16 men who had been held for years at the U.S. prison camps in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Saudi Press Agency reported Monday.
A Saudi found dead at Guantánamo was a self-described jihadist, but one who said he didn't seek to kill U.S. soldiers. He once served in the Saudi army.
Saudi Arabia is offering terrorist suspects counseling, help finding jobs and even matchmaking in an effort to woo them from radical religion.
The Guantánamo prison seems no closer to closing: A prisoner pleaded guilty in an authorized criminal process, and the Bush administration transferred in a new prisoner.
With legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees now frozen in the federal courts, what's a creative civil liberties lawyer to do?
A new European report charges that more than 20 nations in some way helped the CIA abduct and imprison suspected Islamic terrorists in violation of European and international human rights accords.
