Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantánamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, saying in court papers Monday the conditions in the so-called black sites may yield insight into a mental disorder that has raised questions about whether he is competent to stand trial.
Attorneys for a Guantánamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion.
A federal judge who issued a groundbreaking order allowing military detainees in Afghanistan to go to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their confinement said Monday that the right doesn't apply to an Afghan prisoner.
Attorneys for 17 Muslims from China locked up inside a prison camp at Guantánamo asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to take on the case of the men whom a judge ordered set free eight months ago.
President Barack Obama is still deciding whether to go to federal court with the death penalty cases against five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Defense Department official has notified the thousands of victim family members.
The chief judge for the Pentagon's Military Commissions has bowed to a White House request and postponed until late September a war court hearing at Guantánamo Bay for a Saudi man accused of aiding al Qaeda, according to a document obtained by The Miami Herald.
The chief of the Pentagon war court has spurned a defense request for delay and ordered a Military Commission hearing that will address the issue of torture to go forward after Memorial Day at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the practices, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.
A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must press the United States to return a Canadian citizen who is the last Western detainee at Guantánamo Bay.
A Spanish judge has asked the United States, Britain and three other countries about the whereabouts of an alleged senior al Qaeda member who was captured in Pakistan in 2005, a court official said Tuesday.
A federal appeals court overturned on Tuesday a judge's decision to give 17 Chinese citizens, now detained at Guantánamo Bay, 30 days notice of where the U.S. government will send them when they are released.
Muslims from China now held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to order their release into the United States.
The Obama administration moved Thursday to confront growing controversy over its efforts to alter Bush-era terror policies, inviting victims of al Qaeda attacks to meet with the president at the White House on Friday even as it withdrew charges against an alleged al Qaeda plotter held at Guantánamo.
An Army judge who is defying a White House request to freeze the Pentagon's war court ruled Thursday that he would decide at next week's hearing at Guantánamo whether the military's security measures impaired a captive's ability to defend himself.
An Army judge at Guantánamo has ignored a White House request for a 120-day war court freeze and ordered a Feb. 9 arraignment of an al Qaeda suspect.
A former U.S. attorney who was among nine fired by the Bush administration in 2006 has been working as a prosecutor of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo.
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.
Guards shackled 9/11 terror suspect Ramzi bin al Shibh to the courtroom floor and suspect Khalid Sheik Mohammed again said he welcomed death Monday as the U.S. government sought to press ahead with its showcase war crimes trial on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration.
Both the chief prosecutor and his defense counterpart sought delays in next week's war court sessions straddling the inauguration but two Army colonels denied the request
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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