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Protesters oppose holding detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay during a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan. 11, 2012, the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of detainees to be held at the prison. The protesters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, past the US Capitol before finishing up across the street at the US Supreme Court.
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US SUPREME COURT

Justices reject Padilla, Guantánamo appeals

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up any of seven Guantánamo detainee cases, and also refused to reinstate a lawsuit by former ‘enemy combatant’ Jose Padilla against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

  • War court

    Pentagon charges former U.S. resident at Guantánamo in terror plot

    The Pentagon’s war crimes prosecutor proposes to put a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school now detained at Guantánamo on trial for attempting to kill Pakistan’s president and conspiring to blow up gas stations.

  • WAR COURT

    Guantánamo judge won’t subpoena Yemeni leader

    The chief military commissions judge refused a defense request to order Yemen’s embattled leader, now in New York for medical treatment, to undergo war court questioning in the USS Cole bombing case.

  • WAR COURT

    State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader

    Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in New York for medical treatment, but the State Department responds that he has diplomatic immunity.

  • GUANTANAMO

    Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

    The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in the United States recovering from burns suffered in an ‘Arab Spring’ explosion at his presidential compound in Sana’a.

  • A detainee is shown resting inside his cell in Camp Delta at Guantanamo in June 2004.

    Judge dismisses ex-captive's damage suit

    A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guantánamo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko, a Syrian who sought recompense for alleged abusive treatment.

  • In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, Smoke, flames and debris erupt from one of the World Trade Center towers after a plane strikes it, in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

    CAMP JUSTICE

    No 9/11 trial this year at Guantánamo war court

    An email to lawyers makes clear that the alleged Sept. 11 plotters won’t be back at a military commission until next year. Photo Gallery Available

  • Pentagon announces trial of alleged Cole mastermind on new Guantánamo website

    Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 46, a former Saudi millionaire, faces the death penalty in al Qaida’s suicide bombing of a U.S. Navy warship in a Yemen port a decade ago. The announcement came on a new website that news organizations had requested.

  • GUANTANAMO

    New camps chief prepares base for 9/11 tribunal

    Running the detention and court compounds where the accused 9/11 conspirators are confined and face trial is ‘just another mission’ for camp commander.

  • President Andrew Jackson.

    GUANTANAMO

    Bitter analogy in war crime case: Indians, al Qaeda

    Seminoles in 1818 similar to al Qaeda in 2001? Some Pentagon prosecutors appeared to make this analogy to support a Guantánamo war crimes conviction, then clarified in a war court filing. Audio Available

  • Obama to resume military tribunals for terror suspects

    The Obama administration on Monday announced that it will resume using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but officials said they're not giving up on trials in civilian courts and are still considering their options for trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 plotters.

  • At left is Ravil Mingazov in an undated photo taken before his 2002 capture in Pakistan. At right is U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. who on Thursday May 13, 2010 ordered his release from the prison camps at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    U.S. court orders ex-Russian dancer freed from Guantánamo

    A federal court on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to set free from Guantánamo a former Russian Army ballet dancer turned devout Muslim whose plight captured the imagination of a Massachusetts college town.

  • Defense Counsel Barry Coburn questions Lt. Col. W., via closed-circuit from Carlisle Barracks at the U.S. Army War College, during the military commissions hearing of Omar Khadr, Saturday, May 1, 2010, at the U.S. Navy base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His judge, Army Col. Patrick Parrish, is upper right.

    Changes to key Guantánamo evidence innocent, officer says

    An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at Guantánamo in a fatal grenade attack in Afghanistan years later because he realized that he got it wrong and wanted to fix the historical record. Photo Gallery Available

  • Images from Canada's Omar Khadr interrogation video, released by his attorneys July 15, of the Toronto-born teen being questioned in 2003 by Canadian officials at the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

    War court closed, shows 'secret' YouTube video

    The video was of the interrogation of Canadian Omar Khadr and remains classified, even though the Canadian Supreme Court released it two years ago and it can be seen on YouTube. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

  • Judge orders release of detainee abused at Guantánamo

    A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pentagon to release a long-held Mauritanian captive held at Guantánamo Bay who was once considered such a high-value detainee that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld designated him for "special interrogation techniques."

  • Judge OKs Guantánamo detention of Algerian

    A federal judge has upheld as lawful the indefinite detention of an Algerian accused of being an al Qaeda bomb maker, raising the tally of U.S. government victories in Guantánamo habeas corpus lawsuits to eight.

  • A demonstrator dressed as a detainee stages a protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Dec. 5, 2007, as the court was hearing arguments about the rights of prisoners being detained at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. AP

    WAR ON TERRORISM

    Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits

    Judges weighing who must stay at and who can go from Guantánamo have so far ruled for the release of 29 detainees and told the Pentagon it can retain seven others. Photo Gallery Available

  • Judge rules Kuwaiti at Guantánamo was foot soldier

    A federal judge has upheld the military detention of a Kuwaiti man whose lawyers were among the earliest and most persistent challengers of President George W. Bush's right to lock him up as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

  • GUANTANAMO BAY

    Captives brag of 9/11 roles

    The last war-crimes session of the Bush administration was marked by antics from 9/11 defendants and pleas by relatives of 9/11 victims for swifter justice.

  • U.S. judge orders release of young Gitmo detainee

    A federal judge in Washington who earlier ordered the release of some Algerians at Guantánamo to Bosnia on Wednesday further ordered the military to free a Gitmo captive from Chad who was captured at age 14.

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