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Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

By | 11.20.09 | 4:48 pm

Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group More…

Pressure to Close GTMO Puts Some Prisoners at Risk

By | 10.01.09 | 1:11 pm

As the pressure grows on the Obama administration to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay by January, so too does the risk that some of the Guantanamo detainees cleared for release could be returned to countries where they’ll face persecution or torture, More…

Gitmo Defense Lawyers Say Moving Prisoners to United States Isn’t Good Enough

By | 08.13.09 | 12:50 pm

Today’s news that Obama administration officials are touring a Michigan prison as a possible alternative location for detainees now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay could make life easier for some of their defense lawyers. But some say it raises as many concerns as it resolves.

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The Real Test for Obama on Indefinite Detention

By | 07.02.09 | 5:09 pm

Here’s another point I should have made in my piece earlier today: Just because President Obama’s Justice Department has been asserting a remarkably broad, Bush-like view of his detention authority pursuant to the laws of war in the Guantanamo detainees’ habeas corpus cases, that doesn’t mean the president More…