The Guantánamo Blog

From Roger Fitch and our Friends at Justinian Click here to read the whole article.. Alien Tort law gives a leg-up to Abu Ghraib victi...

The force-feeding hearing is before Judge Kessler at the DC District Court this Monday and Tuesday (October 6 and 7) at 10 AM. If you are in...

Friday was a busy day. Judge Kessler stepped up to the plate and not only ordered that the force feeding hearing be made public (she specifi...

The government wants to keep the hearing on the force feedings at Guantanamo secret. Why? The government says it is important for "nati...

Since being released from Guantanamo Moazamm Begg has been a steadfast fighter for those still held at Guantanamo. Earlier this year after r...

I had the honor of helping in Shawali Khan's habeas hearing and the fact that Mr. Khan is still being held at Guantanamo is a travesty. ...

Michael Mori, the former US Marine lawyer who spent four years defending David Hicks released a book this week: In the company of coward...

And like my remaining client who will never be tried in the military commission or in a criminal trial....- -  “The more guilty you are...

I would be amiss in not addressing the disgraceful decision of the Judge in Jose Padilla's case to increase his sentence to 30 years. I ...

Jeff Kaye has this summary of new department of defense directives for prisoners like the Guantanamo prisoners. The last version was dated ...

Jeff Kaye has an update on the nurse who refused to violate the oath he took as a medical provider---seems the military has decided not to c...

September 12, 1977.

(SORRY ERASED THIS BY MISTAKE).  As usual I turn to the talking dog for the 9-11 message as he was a block from the twin towers at the time ...

While we wait for the redacted torture report to finally be released there is this news about some of the torture we might read about in th...

Many of us Gitmo attorneys are concerned about a deafening silence and the complete halt to the review committee. Is there a deal underway t...