DOJ Responds to Claim That Witnesses in Jawad Case Were Paid by U.S.

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…

In Jawad Case, Both Evidence and Crime Remain Unclear

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…

Jawad Could Be on His Way Home in Three Weeks

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…

More From the Justice Department on Jawad

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

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Judge Faces Major Challenge to Government Authority Over Gitmo Detainee

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…

U.S. Will Transfer Gitmo Child Soldier to Civilian Court, But Still Won’t Let Him Go

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…

Judge Slams Justice Department in Gitmo Child Soldier Case

The last time I wrote about the case of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, the government had just conceded that its primary evidence — his “confessions” — were the product of torture and inadmissible in court. But the government still wasn’t letting Jawad go. Last night I received a copy More…

Judge Suppresses Coerced Confessions and Refuses to Delay Hearing in Gitmo Case

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as expected, ruled that his coerced confessions will not be admitted in his habeas corpus proceeding. This is the first time that a judge has ordered More…

Obama Still Hasn’t Stated Position on Evidence Acquired Through Torture

Following up on my post earlier today that the Justice Department has decided not to oppose the American Civil Liberties Union’s motion to suppress tortured and coerced testimony in the habeas corpus case of Mohammed Jawad, it’s worth noting that the Obama administration still hasn’t said what it’s official More…

Government Abandons Effort to Use Tortured Evidence in Gitmo Habeas Case

The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habeas corpus case of Mohammed Jawad, who was arrested as a child in Afghanistan, interrogated under torture, and then locked up at Guantanamo Bay for More…