Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 28, 2009. In a crucial defeat for the Obama administration, an ACLU lawsuit on behalf of five victims of extraordinary rendition will move forward.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. April 26, 2009. If the torture of the first "high-value detainee" was authorized by the Bybee memos, who ordered his torture 18 weeks before they were written?
Comment Is FreeApril 2, 2009. Clive Stafford Smith is accused of 'unprofessional conduct' by Pentagon officials who monitor communication between Gitmo prisoners and their lawyers.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. March 25, 2009. As a condition for his release, the U.S. government told Binyam Mohamed to plead guilty, deny torture, and not to talk to media.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. March 17, 2009. Under Obama's Justice Department, "change" means nothing more than turning "enemy combatants" to "Nobodies Formerly Known As Enemy Combatants."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 8, 2009. Obama said he thinks all detainees should have "an opportunity through habeas corpus to answer to charges." But his DOJ disagrees.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. February 20, 2009. It's now up to Obama to decide whether to find homes for the Uighurs in the U.S., or to keep them at Gitmo until further notice.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. January 16, 2009. Mohammed El-Gharani arrived at Guantánamo when he was 14 years old and has spent a third of his life in prison.
The NationJanuary 15, 2009. David Cole, Michael Ratner, John Nichols and others pose the questions the attorney general nominee should be asked at his confirmation hearing.
Steve Hendricks, AlterNet. January 14, 2009. Far from seeking to prosecute the criminals who authorized torture, Barack Obama has instead asked several to work for him.
Michael Ratner, Jules Lobel, The Nation. December 1, 2008. If Congress chooses to rebrand Guantanamo with a legal gloss, it will legitimize the indefinite imprisonment of people without charge.
Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. November 29, 2008. Judge: "Seven years of waiting for a legal system to give them an answer ... is more than enough."
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. November 19, 2008. If President-elect Barack Obama truly plans to make good on his promise to close the American gulag, he should start by heeding this advice.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. October 27, 2008. The government's case against the Canadian child soldier, who was only 15 when he was imprisoned, is collapsing.
Center for Constitutional RightsOctober 7, 2008. The prisoners are all Uigur men who would face persecution -- even death -- if returned to their native China.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. September 20, 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.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. September 18, 2008. The latest charges brought forth at Gitmo are an alarming reminder of the misplaced zeal of the Military Commissions.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. August 30, 2008. More than two years after the government began investigating the suicides of three Guantanamo prisoners, disturbing questions remain.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. August 13, 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.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. August 6, 2008. Widely considered a trial of the military commissions system itself, the Hamdan trial was a two-week exercise in government secrecy and propaganda.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 25, 2008. As the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan continues, justice and logic remain in short supply.
