The Guantánamo Blog

Some advice to Obama on how to close it now.... Read it here .

Warsaw (AFP) - Poland wants the United States to rule out the death penalty for two men who were tortured by the CIA in its territory befor...

Lawyers for Al Warafi, who was has effectively spent his entire adult life in jail,[at Guantanamo] filed a motion in the U.S. District Cour...

Not much attention is paid to the ICC here in the United States (wonder why that is???) anyway I did not want to let this historic moment go...

Justinian in Guantanamo, International law, Military Commissions, Roger Fitch Esq, US Supreme Court  At Guantánamo, the government has...

"Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, a Yemeni national who has been detained at the American prison facility at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, weig...

On March 5, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)  u...

The summary of the torture report which was released a few months back (I reported on it here ) discussed a prisoner at Gitmo who is now sub...

In January, VICE News  obtained a two-page document  in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that contained the first kno...

I know from my own clients transition to the country of Georgia-- this is a difficult situation and it takes time. Read the update here .

Apparently Obama now regrets not closing Guantanamo on his first day in office. sigh . Read the rest here .

Today the periodic review board announced that Saeed Sarem (235) won his Periodic Review case and is now cleared for release. According to...

Shaker Aamer has been cleared for release by both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. He is the last British resident to b...

H/T's off to the 1st. District DNC delegate....