Articles tagged with: Guantanamo
GTMO habeas petition denied on the merits, and another dismissed without prejudice
1. Makhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi v. Obama (D.D.C. Mar. 24, 2010)
Judge Lamberth yesterday denied habeas relief, on the merits, to GTMO detainee Makhtar …
By Gar Pardy
The Supreme Court has spoken its last words on Omar Khadr. Regrettably it is a political decision and one that has little to do with justice, fundamental or temporal. Surprisingly all nine justices …
From Toronto Star
Canada’s spy agency has just celebrated its 25th anniversary. But there’s little cheer in a damning report from the watchdog Security Intelligence Review Committee.
The committee’s survey of the role of the Canadian Security …
Federal Court Permits Landmark ACLU Rendition Case To Go Forward Government Cannot Claim State Secrets To Deny Torture Victims Day In Court
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 28, 2009 CONTACT: Rachel Myers, (212) 549-2689 …
From CBC News
There were mixed messages from the government over whether the Tories will appeal a Federal Court judge’s ruling that Canada must press the U.S. for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.
During …
From CBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2009 | 4:30 PM ET
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is required to press the United States for the return of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay to “comply …
By Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter,
The Toronto Star
ANALYSIS
Omar Khadr’s military lawyer was fired last Friday. Five days later, he was re-instated by a Guantanamo judge.
Navy Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler had appealed his dismissal, arguing that his superior …
By WILLIAM GLABERSON and MARGOT WILLIAMS
Published: March 31, 2009
WASHINGTON — Ilshat Hassan’s flight from China has brought refuge, a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen and an apartment in the Virginia suburbs.
Mr. Hassan, an …
By Dan Ephron | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009
Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation …
WASHINGTON – The tales are horrifyingly medieval in nature – terror suspects beaten, bound and bleeding, forced into coffin-like boxes, shackled naked to their beds in darkened cells, deprived of food for weeks, forced underwater …
JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Tracy of the National Institute of Military Justice at American University Washington College of Law says President Obama and Congress should appoint a non-partisan commission to examine and report on policies …
JURIST Special Guest Columnists Representatives David Skaggs (D-CO) (1987-1999) and Mickey Edwards (R-OK) (1977-1993), members of the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Committee, say that despite the Obama administration’s welcome new approach to handling terrorism …
The 17 have been in Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years
US federal appeals court has rejected the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees onto US soil, reports say.
A US judge ruled last …
By ZIYAAD MIA
GUANTANAMO’S CHILD – The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
By Michelle Shephard
Wiley, 270 pages, $29.95
‘We’ve got to spend time in the shadows. … It is a mean, nasty, dangerous dirty business out there, …
