The Guantánamo Blog

As a lawyer I always advise people to get it in writing.... seems a lot of people forget what they said when it gets to be the time when the...

Roger Fitch Esq • October 8, 2008 Our Man in Washington Not only is the economy unravelling at a rapid rate, but so too the well laid ...

A couple of days ago I received the email below from the department of injustice telling me that they intend on seeking dismissal of all def...

Thank you Dan Feges at Pruning Shears for this story about my client Al-Ghizzawi. Click on the title to go directly to the article.

The appellate court has entered a temporary "stay" on the release of the 17 Uighers which was scheduled for Friday. Both sides hav...

Dignity and Justice for Detainees week (click on the title for more)... Maybe Judge Urbina knew tha when he ordered the 17 gitmo prisoners r...

"Because the Constitution prohibits indefinite detention without cause, the Government's continued detention of Petitioners is unla...

Over the weekend two men were released: Mammar Ameur, 939, an Algerian and Mustafa Ibrahim, 719, from the Sudan. I know that Mustafa was not...

Well no sooner did I write about the lack of movement by our courts when the Circuit Court decided to throw out Al-Ghizzawi's appeal for...

As many of you know I am not the biggest Obama fan... but I guess I will vote (I have to admit I am still thinking about that one for the fi...

The New York Times today reports on what many of us habeas attorneys have been talking about for quite awhile and what I reported about jus...

And just when you thought you knew more about our current VP then you ever wanted to know... you learn there is more that you need to know,i...

Of course when Bush pushes the panic button, which he regularly does, I automatically wonder what part of our constitution will be voted obs...

So now the British are telling their soldiers they can't turn over prisoners in Iraq to the US without themselves facing prosecution bec...

Death throes of the Bush regime … Key case to test concept of “enemy combatants” ... Last minute election tricks in the Republican armoury …...