Federal Court Rejects Guilt-by-Association, Orders Release of Gitmo Prisoner

Though it doesn’t mean he’ll actually get to go anywhere, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in a decision filed on Monday granted the petition for habeas corpus of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, held by the United States since 2002, when he was a teenager.

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D.C. Circuit Court Rules Courts Have No Power Over Gitmo Prisoners — Again

Yesterday, I wrote about the 17 Chinese Uighurs’ petition to the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruling that the federal courts have no authority to release the prisoners, even if they’ve been wrongfully imprisoned for years.

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Can U.S. Courts Free Innocent Gitmo Prisoners?

In what’s being called the first major challenge of the Obama administration’s detention policy, lawyers on Monday filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of Kiyemba v. Obama, in which a Court More…