Underscoring the tremendous pressure on the Obama administration surrounding its plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Republicans at today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing repeatedly pressed Attorney General Eric Holder on whether he plans to release “terrorists” into the United States.
Lamar Smith (R-Texas), for example, reminding Holder that he’d promised he More…
Faced with bipartisan resistance to the idea of releasing any of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised a Senate committee that he would not release any suspected terrorists into the United States, CNN reports.
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The Obama administration is reportedly preparing to allow up to seven Chinese Muslims imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay to settle in the United States, according to The Los Angeles Times. The plan is not final, however; it could face opposition both from China and within the United States, where many More…
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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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…
President Obama just announced that Harold Hongju Koh, the head of Yale Law School and a human rights official during the Clinton administration, will be the legal adviser to the State Department. That’s big news as the administration proceeds with its review of interrogations, detentions and renditions policy. Koh, More…
Reports that the Obama administration will appoint the assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Bush administration, Daniel Fried, as a special envoy on the Guantanamo Bay prison suggest the Obama administration is at least trying to deal with the question of what to do with many of More…
In case there were any lingering doubts as to just how Kafkaesque the U.S. detention policy for Guantanamo Bay prisoners has become, the latest chapter in the long and tragic saga of 17 Chinese Uighurs held at the facility should lay them to rest.
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Although Britain repeatedly refused Bush administration requests to take prisoners being held by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay, UPI reported on Thursday, via the Times of London, that the British government has changed its mind.
Eager to help president Obama close down the prison when he takes over in More…
Pity the Uighurs. Originally known best in this country for their unusual name (pronounced WEE’-gurz), the group of 17 Chinese Muslims has been locked up at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years. That has contributed to the Uighurs new-found notoriety as hapless victims of a U.S. detention policy that More…
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