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NORTHAM: The new tribunals will only apply to 13 of the roughly 240 detainees who remain at Guantanamo. That could include men whose cases are already underway, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who's ...
On Monday, the war court at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba resumed pre-trial hearings in the prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is being tried along with four co-defendants accused ...
A small number of Guantanamo detainees will be prosecuted in military tribunals with new legal protections. Under new guidelines set by the Obama administration, the military tribunals will get ...
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Bush administration’s plan to use military tribunals to try detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was ...
The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo Bay is pictured. A federal appeals court threw out years worth of rulings from Guantanamo Bay's military tribunals on Tuesday.
1. Jurisdiction at Guantanamo depends on the validity of the lease. The lease, unfortunately, is not valid. It was negotiated in order to allow the US to protect Cuba and the Cuban people.
Margaret Warner reports on military tribunals for the alleged terrorists who are held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Guests incude Ruth Wedgewood, a professor of international law at Johns Hopkins ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday outlined an ambitious plan to grant all 594 Defense Department detainees at Guantanamo Bay jail hearings on whether they are properly imprisoned as “enemy ...
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Nestled in a dip in the dunes, the cellblock at Camp 3-2 can get uncomfortable on a summer afternoon despite giant blowers that keep the temperature within the bounds of ...
The prisoners at Guantanamo Bay -- or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it -- have had no access to a hearing in a court of law. Instead, Guantanamo's inmates are subjected ...