Half of Gitmo’s Uncharged Detainees Cleared for Release
In addition to the 10 detainees actually charged with something, Guantanamo Bay continues to hold some 66 detainees totally uncharged with any crime. These detainees have been held for years, many over...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Ban Any More Guantanamo Releases
In a 244-174 vote split almost perfectly along party lines, the House of Representatives has voted today in favor of a bill that would ban all transfers of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, which if it...
View ArticleTranscript: Gitmo Prisoner Says Saudi Royal Family Member Recruited Him
According to a newly released transcript of the interrogation of prisoner Ghassan Abdallah al-Sharbi at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner was recruited to a pre-9/11 terror plot within the United States by...
View ArticleNavy Appoints New Commander for Trump’s Gitmo
Some eight years into President Obama’s pledge to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay by the end of 2009, the Navy has appointed Rear Admiral Edward Cashman in charge of the prison. He will be...
View ArticleObama Plans to Transfer 17 or 18 Gitmo Detainees Abroad
President Obama has informed Congress that he intends to transfer 17 or 18 detainees from Guantanamo Bay by the end of his term in office. Current law requires the Pentagon to notify Congress 30 days...
View ArticleTrump Says He’s Not Bound by Spending Bill Restrictions on Gitmo Transfers
In a signing statement on Congress’ latest spending bill, President Trump has insisted he doesn’t consider himself bound by the restrictions on transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay. The spending...
View ArticleCanada to Apologize to Ex-Gitmo Detainee, Pay Compensation
Omar Khadr, a Canadian who has captured by the US as a teenager and held for years as the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, will receive a formal apology from the Canadian government, and...
View ArticleTrump Administration Signals Intention to Begin Refilling Gitmo
Trump Administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, are suggesting that President Trump’s campaign promise to start refilling the detention center at Guantanamo Bay could begin...
View ArticleTrump Officials Trying to Finalize Legal Language to Expand Gitmo’s Use
While President Trump has made clear he intends to not only keep Guantanamo Bay open, but refill it with a new round of detainees, the administration has been struggling with the legal obstacles...
View ArticleTrump’s Pentagon to Spend Nearly $500 Million on Gitmo Construction
While President Trump is still trying to sort out exactly how to word his executive order, but the plan is clearly to expand the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and start throwing more detainees...
View ArticleTrump Signs Executive Order to Keep Guantanamo Open
President Trump has signed an executive order that is intended to reverse President Obama’s intentions to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Details are still emerging, but a leaked cable...
View ArticleUS Struggles to Find Destinations for ISIS Detainees in Syria
US officials say that the fate of hundreds of ISIS detainees held in Syria is uncertain, and that they are not ruling out sending some of them to Guantanamo Bay, refilling the detention facility there....
View ArticleTrump Wants to Send Captured ISIS ‘Beatles’ to Gitmo
Large numbers of ISIS fighters are held by Syrian Kurdish forces and the Iraqi government. Many of them are foreign born, and many people aren’t particularly clear what is going to happen to them, or...
View ArticleAmid Syria Pullout, US Undecided What to Do With ISIS Detainees
US officials say that with the announcement of a withdrawal of US forces from Syria, there is still no specific plan in place for an estimated 790 detained ISIS fighters or relatives. Officials say...
View ArticleFalsely Imprisoned Guantanamo Inmate Appeals to Biden For Release
With calls growing for President Biden to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, an inmate of the notorious detention facility appealed to the president for his release in an article for the Independent....
View ArticleBiden Launches Review to Close Guantanamo Bay Prison
The Biden administration is launching a review of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay with the aim of closing the facility, something the Obama administration promised to do but never followed...
View ArticleNDAA Includes Provisions Blocking Biden From Closing Gitmo
The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that President Biden signed on Monday includes amendments that block him from taking steps to close the notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba....
View ArticleFirst UN Investigator Allowed in Gitmo Says Detainees Face ‘Cruel, Inhuman’...
The first UN investigator allowed inside the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay said the 30 remaining detainees in the facility are facing “ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under...
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