President Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to help him close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his case for a White House plan to shutter a detention facility he said symbolizes...
Retired U.S. Army General Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, did not appear for questioning before a French court on Tuesday, after being subpoenaed last month...
A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh for allegedly lying on U.S. immigration papers 20 years earlier. Odeh, 67, was put on trial in November...
Palestinian activist and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh today received a significant boost from the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which unanimously vacated her 2014 conviction of an immigration...
“Why not shoot them?” asks prominent right-wing magazine National Review, in an article proposing that the U.S. government execute Guantánamo detainees instead of transferring them. President Obama...
President Obama unveiled a formal plan this week to finally close the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp by the end of his term, a goal he no doubt believes is central to his legacy. Yet,...
Almost a decade ago, in June 2007, as he campaigned for president, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Texas crowd, “We’re going to close Guantánamo. And we’re going to restore habeas corpus.” One week...
Inmates challenging their confinement in special prison units where their communications are monitored non-stop will get one more chance to revive their case against the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of...
This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
