The Guantánamo Blog

Some of you have asked about the "new" military commissions that Obama signed into law last week. Click on the title for a summary...

From Justinian...... The ACLU, for example, has a dedicated Torture Report web site , and the National Security Archive has an online Tortu...

Friday night six of the thirteen remaining Uighers flew off to Palau to try to rebuild their lives. Congrats to attorney George Clark and a...

Yesterdays conference was full of interesting Guantanamo questions. You can read more about another issue that was brought before the court ...

Hey I will be back on NPR's Worldview today at noon central time. you can listen here or listen to the podcast afterward....

On the heels of the Supreme Court's granting of Cert in Kiyemba comes the next issue "Kiyemba II." In Kiyemba the Supreme Co...

AN UPDATE ON THE UIGHERS IN BERMUDA..........

AGAIN FROM FIREDOGLAKE: "On Tuesday, I reported a new campaign to close Gitmo (the campaign website is now live ). Today, a bunch of m...

It is nice when communities can see past the fear mongering and try to do the right thing. Click on the title for more.

There is a new campaign underway to get Congress behind the closing of Gitmo...not just by allowing men to be tried here but to stop the fea...

The Supreme court has once again stepped into the mess made by our courts (mostly, but not entirely, by the DC Circuit Court) and has agreed...

Click on the title for a look at the Obama administrations claim that it wasn't known in 2006 that torturing Gitmo prisoners was illega...

Habeas counsel David Cynamon has asked the District Court in DC to hold Secretary of Defense Gates in contempt of court for not obeying a co...

One to Kuwait, pursuant to court order and one to Belgium...the identity of the detainee sent to Belgium has not been released. Click on the...

Although not mentioned in this article Arabic/English dictionaries have long been banned too. I am not sure if that ban is still in effect. ...