The Guantánamo Blog

The military judge will not allow the lawyer to withdraw and the prisoner refuses to accept that the proceedings are little more than a farc...

I regularly get emails from many of you asking what you can do to help me or my clients. I appreciate all of the requests but there has been...

I tried to make a link to the Westside Story song "america" because it just seems so appropriate for this posting but my technolog...

I reported last week about the release of two men from Guantanamo but I had scant information about Algerian Mammar Ameur. I have now receiv...

One of the most important documents of the U.S. torture program has just become publicly available for the first time. This is now posted o...

So there you have it: A judge ordered 17 Uighers to be released into the US just over a week ago and to stop that release the Justice depart...

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...