The Guantánamo Blog

Ibrahim Idris has been held for 11 years- he has severe physical and mental illnesses and the government has known this for 11 years. Finall...

ROGER FITCH ESQ  •  MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 Israel given unfiltered NSA data ... All phone calls in the US are "relevant to terro...

Some things that went on last week while I was busy with other things.... Omar Khadr has been moved out of the prison where he was being k...

(Reuters) - Using the Wi-Fi connection at  Starbucks  was a better bet than risking putting confidential defense documents on a glitch-prone...

As Andy Worthington reports  life has not been good for Mr. Khadr- imprisoned at Guantanamo at age 15 and finally released to Canadian autho...

From Lyle Denniston at SCOTUS : GTMO and war’s end in Afghanistan A Kuwaiti national held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay for mo...

Jason Leopold- now writing for al-Jazeera news has long been fighting to report on Guantanamo and unveil the secrecy that permeates the proc...

Are from sketch artist Janet Hamlin....you can see some of them here .

More from artist Molly Crabapple regarding the surreal existence at Guantanamo

BIKO WAS MURDERED 36 YEARS AGO TODAY.... you can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire....

My friend at the talking dog is the only person I know personally who was around to actually witness the events of the U.S.  9/11 in NYC---...

Seems my country managed to screw with Chili on this same date (although a few years earlier)....the land of Allende and my favorite poet P...

From Der Prozeß , by Franz Kafka: K. must remember that the trial would not be public; certainly if the court deemed it necessary it ...

So now the president wants to appoint an attorney to be a federal judge for a lifetime appointment who believes that our constitution is onl...

I was pleased to see that artists in Stockholm put orange masks on many of that beautiful cities sculptures...ahead of Obama's visit to ...