A U.S. Marine reservist and general has created a detailed report recommending that up to 400 of the 600 prisoners at the U.S.-run prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have done nothing wrong and should be released, NPR reports.
Lawyers have been making that argument More…
Portugal has agreed to take two Syrians held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The deal was apparently reached last week, but didn’t get a whole lot of attention.
Portugal is the third European Union country to accept Guantanamo prisoners More…
In my last post on the “eyewitness evidence” the government claims it has against Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan who just won his habeas corpus case, I noted that military defense lawyer Eric Montalvo said that in his investigation of the Jawad case, he learned that the government’s More…
Eric Montalvo, a U.S. Army Marine Corps major and Mohammed Jawad’s military defense lawyer, yesterday sent me a long note about the latest news on his client. Among the most interesting points is his characterization of the evidence the government now says it may use to bring a More…
Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy seized for allegedly throwing a grenade at U.S. troops and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay ever since, may be on his way home to Afghanistan within three weeks.
In another tense hearing this morning at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Judge Ellen Huvelle granted his More…
Khaled Al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti seized in Pakistan in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay ever since, on Wednesday became the 28th Guantanamo detainee to win his habeas corpus case.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., granted his petition for release and ordered the government More…
Since writing my last post, I received this from Tracy Schmaler at the Justice Department, responding to my earlier request for comment on the habeas corpus case of Mohammed Jawad:
We have informed the judge in this case that we will not contest the writ of habeas corpus
Late this afternoon, as expected, the Justice Department filed its brief defending its claim that it can continue to hold Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, even though it hasn’t produced any admissible evidence that he committed a crime.
But instead of arguing that the government has More…
I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now.
After telling the government last week that it has “no evidence” supporting its case against Mohammed Jawad — the Afghan teenager arrested for allegedly throwing a hand grenade at U.S. soldiers, More…
It wasn’t until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arrested for allegedly lobbing a hand grenade at U.S. soldiers in 2002, admitted that it does not have enough evidence to continue to hold him More…
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