http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Across the Globe 60 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:11:07 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/604739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/604739.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:17 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/600089.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/600089.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:25 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593282.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593282.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/593141.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:45 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/585588.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/585588.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:52 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/562994.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/562994.html Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:38 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/532349.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/532349.html Wed, 14 May 2008 23:20 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/527053.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/527053.html Fri, 09 May 2008 09:44 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/522380.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/522380.html Mon, 05 May 2008 22:26 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/518419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/518419.html Fri, 02 May 2008 23:42 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/515220.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/515220.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:31 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/502537.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/502537.html Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:51 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/481369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/481369.html Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:03 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/453564.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/453564.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:34 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/446518.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/446518.html Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:36 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/436044.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/436044.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:45 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/424413.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/424413.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:15 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/419679.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/419679.html Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:50 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/416516.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/416516.html Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:51 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/402248.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/402248.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:53 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/390579.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/390579.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:49 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/386363.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/386363.html Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:39 EST Under U.S. pressure, Canada says it will rewrite a training manual that lists Guantánamo as a possible torture site. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/375381.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/375381.html Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:39 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/372813.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/372813.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:34 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/360019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/360019.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:54 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/351592.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/351592.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:12 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/350110.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/350110.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:24 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/350100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/350100.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:45 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/345948.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/345948.html Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:43 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/345899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/345899.html Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/343551.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/343551.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:58 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/339697.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/339697.html Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:07 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/339209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/339209.html Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:49 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/336781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/336781.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:49 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/329977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/329977.html Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:15 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/326756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/326756.html Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:17 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/322351.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/322351.html Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:30 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/316124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/316124.html Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:03 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/313395.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/313395.html Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:44 EST 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 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/308728.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/308728.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:29 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/304848.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/304848.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:10 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/302977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/302977.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:46 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/295693.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/295693.html Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:15 EST The Pentagon has sent home 11 more captives from its Guantánamo detention center in Cuba -- eight to Afghanistan and three to Jordan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/293240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/293240.html Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:43 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/289329.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/289329.html Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:18 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/286644.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/286644.html Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:39 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/285375.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/285375.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:27 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/282452.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/282452.html Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:24 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/281230.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/281230.html Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:19 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/279514.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/279514.html Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:46 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/266060.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/266060.html Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:37 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/265403.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/265403.html Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:26 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/262703.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/262703.html Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:28 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/262701.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/262701.html Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:11 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/310437.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/310437.html Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:36 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/171928.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/171928.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:31 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/124351.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/124351.html Tue, 01 May 2007 23:41 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/264549.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/264549.html Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:01 EDT Saudi Arabia is offering terrorist suspects counseling, help finding jobs and even matchmaking in an effort to woo them from radical religion. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/264825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/264825.html Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:00 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/55997.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/55997.html Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:29 EST With legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees now frozen in the federal courts, what's a creative civil liberties lawyer to do? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/310455.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/globe/story/310455.html Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:47 EDT 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.