Tina Foster

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 [...]

Today’s ruling by a federal district court judge that some prisoners who’ve been detained in Afghanistan for years without charge or trial have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts is only the beginning when it comes to the Bagram detention facility. That’s because U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled only on [...]

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 [...]