The Guantánamo Blog

Saifullah Paracha, the oldest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay, will probably die in detention without ever being charged. His son is currently i...

Although I don't believe everything Steve says in his prelude.... it is a damn good song.

One of the leaders in the Guantanamo litigation died this past week. Retired Judge John Gibbons argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the ...

That is how long Guantanamo has been open. Sixteen years, ten months and 28 days. Andy Worthington, our Gitmo historian, comments on the tim...

Although the dog's post is not about Guantanamo this time around I thought it was important to share for two reasons: 1. To show that w...

It is Thanksgiving here in the U.S. of A. I wish I felt more hopeful.

A 2007 report from the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) was released after an ACLU lawsuit. Part of it describes how Abu Zubaydah ...

One of Donald Trump's  legally-dubious  election stunts was to send thousands of US soldiers to Texas and the Mexican border. A probabl...

Back at the military commission abd al Hadi al Iraqi  had to be removed from his latest hearing by ambulance.... because of the torture we s...

I have posted many times about the failures of the military commission system set up by the Bush administration to avoid the federal courts....

Seems we are sending our torturer in chief to investigate the torture and death of  Jamal Khashoggi. read more here . You really cannot ma...

So the Guardian reports today that the 10th circuit judge that chief justice Roberts selected to review the many ethics complaints against K...

An interesting comparison on the two... read the whole thing here . h/o to Walt The Gitmo Template For some of us, at least, this k...

The periodic review board (PRB) is broken. It was never great shakes to begin with but now it is completely broken. The PRB is supposed to w...

Late last month the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture issued a report on the role of that state in our rendition and torture o...