Stories by Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a writer and historian, and author of The Guantánamo Files.
A day after the controversial Gen. Thomas Hartmann is relocated, Lt. Col. Darell Vandeveld resigns, citing "slipshod" prosecutions.
Posted on Oct 1, 2008
Yesterday was the birthday of Guantanamo's child soldier and sole Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, who has been held in isolation since he was 15.
Posted on Sep 20, 2008
The latest charges brought forth at Gitmo are an alarming reminder of the misplaced zeal of the Military Commissions.
Posted on Sep 18, 2008
More than two years after the government began investigating the suicides of three Guantanamo prisoners, disturbing questions remain.
Posted on Aug 30, 2008
Biden doesn't have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he's been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush's terror war.
Posted on Aug 24, 2008
Until now, the Bush administration has said it has the right to hold "enemy combatants" without charge or trial. The Hamdan sentence says otherwise.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008
Widely considered a trial of the military commissions system itself, the Hamdan trial was a two-week exercise in government secrecy and propaganda.
Posted on Aug 6, 2008
As the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan continues, justice and logic remain in short supply.
Posted on Jul 25, 2008
A 5 to 4 ruling in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legitimizes the president's right to indefinitely imprison "enemy combatants."
Posted on Jul 22, 2008
A closer look at the first Guantánamo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.
Posted on Jul 16, 2008
The ruling in
Parhat v. Gates invokes Lewis Carroll: "the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true."
Posted on Jul 2, 2008
Thursday's verdict is a resounding triumph for the importance of the law as a check on unfettered executive power and the caprice of politicians.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008
While much reporting after last week's arraignments focused on KSM's desire to be executed, torture itself is on trial at Guantánamo Bay.
Posted on Jun 9, 2008
Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed Hashim's delusions of grandeur have led the Pentagon to charge him with "providing material support for terrorism."
Posted on Jun 5, 2008
With four more prisoners charged last week, the Bush administration seems intent on trying as many Guantánamo detainees as possible before November.
Posted on Jun 3, 2008
A recent decision by a military judge shows how political squabbles make the wheels of justice revolve in slow motion at Guantánamo Bay.
Posted on May 28, 2008
Guantánamo is in total disarray.
Posted on May 21, 2008
The untold stories of the five Afghan prisoners released with Sami al-Haj reveal, yet again, the wholesale mockery of justice at Guantánamo.
Posted on May 11, 2008
The release of al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj last week made headlines. But few have mentioned the others prisoners freed from Guantánamo.
Posted on May 9, 2008
The Al Jazeera cameraman was never charged.
Posted on May 2, 2008
Alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah has been held as a "high-value detainee" for over six years. His importance has been wildly exaggerated.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008
As prisoners at Guantánamo begin boycotting their own show trials, the U.S. government is focusing on propaganda in lieu of legitimacy.
Posted on Apr 23, 2008
Drawings by journalist Sami Al-Haj depicting torture at Gitmo have been censored.
Posted on Apr 11, 2008
Charged with aiding the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani joins a growing number of prisoners facing military commissions.
Posted on Apr 1, 2008
As the Bush administration announces it will seek the death penalty against six detainees, concerns about Guantánamo seem to be swept aside.
Posted on Feb 13, 2008
Three pre-trial hearings at Gitmo involve two "child soldiers" and a driver for Osama bin Laden. Are these the worst of the worst?
Posted on Feb 11, 2008
The CIA director admits the U.S. waterboarded detainees, but says it was only done on three. He's lying.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008
Even after six years of lawless brutality, the case of a Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi is almost too horrifying to believe.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008
As Canada apologizes for putting the U.S. on a list of countries that torture, its own government stays silent on the case of Omar Khadr.
Posted on Jan 24, 2008
This sentencing sends a message to the President that torture is justified for little more than thought crime.
Posted on Jan 22, 2008
The sixth anniversary of the creation of Bush's legal "black hole" is upon us.
Posted on Jan 11, 2008
The Supreme Court's decision in June 2004 has been undermined twice by Congress in the intervening years.
Posted on Dec 22, 2007
