International Justice Network

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates allowed the Obama administration to immediately appeal the cases of three detainees at the Bagram prison in Afghanistan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Bates had ruled in April that the three detainees — all captured outside of Afghanistan and sent to [...]

In a groundbreaking ruling today that directly contradicts the Bush and Obama administration’s insistence that detainees held by the U.S. government at the Bagram prison in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal judge ruled on Thursday that in fact, they do.
U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled that [...]

President Obama’s new strategy for Afghanistan, which Spencer has been reporting on in detail, is being greeted with cautious optimism from lawyers representing prisoners held at the U.S.-run prison at Bagram air base, Afghanistan. But those lawyers — who are representing prisoners picked up around the world and locked up at Bagram for years, with [...]

After hearing arguments on whether prisoners held indefinitely without charge at the U.S.-controlled prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have the right to challenge their detention in American courts, Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia late Wednesday ordered the government to provide certain basic information [...]