The Guantánamo Blog

I was going to try to keep this professional....but screw it. He doesn't deserve anything more professional. Yesterday G W Obama officia...

Last week the New York Times provided an editorial a right without a remedy asking the supreme court to accept cert in the case commonly ...

In recently declassified memos Rumsfeld made clear that he knew the men detained at Guantanamo were not the worst of the worst... In fact he...

So far we have convicted in our military kangaroo proceedings: a kid, a cook, a man who worked at a "training camp" that closed tw...

The Spanish high court has given the go-ahead to do what the US government refuses to do- investigate the claims of torture and other abuses...

It is hard to know where to start with this piece by Jason Leopold. I guess I will start by asking you to read it (click on the title). I th...

First Tunisia, then Egypt and now Guantanamo. Sorry I am a little late reporting on this. Last month the military closed camp 4, the least r...

Late last month I had the honor of speaking along side Prof. Cherif Bassiouni at Depaul law school here in Chicago. He published The Insti...

Bush cancels trip to Geneva Switzerland as human rights groups prepared a 2500 page indictment against him for mistreatment of the men at Gu...

Sadly another detainee died at Guantanamo this week. The military claims that the 48 year old man died of "natural causes." If you...

For those of you who can't be bother listending to Obama tonight come and hear: Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, President Emeritus of the Int...

INVITE: Amnesty International Panel Discussion With Former Guantanamo Detainee – Wed, Jan 26 th 7:30-9:00pm at UC Berkeley Amnesty Intern...

On October 16, 2009, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the government seeking all records relating to the deaths of d...

I guess I should mention that I have not spoken to Andy about the case at all.... Read his analysis here .

As Scott Horton reports: "Mamdouh Habib, an Egyptian-born Australian citizen, traveled to Pakistan in 2001, seeking work and religious ...