The Guantánamo Blog

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a trial in a decade-old lawsuit accusing a military contractor of responsibility for torture...

A podcase with Mohamedou Salahi that again underscores why leaving Guantanamo does not set you free. Listen here .

Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba –  The prosecution team in the Sept. 11 case argued this week that the past abuse of the five defendants at CIA ...

The military has for years conducted a dog and pony show for the press -- allowing them to come in and look (at certain areas) and take phot...

As mentioned below there are two new important reports out. This is the second and it looks at the medical care of the detainees (or more p...

There are several new reports that I want to bring to your attention. I hope to have a link to one other report relating to the health of de...

If only Barack Obama had possessed the  cojones  to prosecute and convict malefactors from the Bush administration for corruption and war c...

In other news... when I am not representing my Gitmo client I am a civil rights attorney representing individuals who have had their civil r...

Actually I have not heard freedom ring in many a year.... Happy 4th of July Amerika.

Attorney Tom Wilner and team had an important victory in the appellate court. For the first time the court has made clear that the detainees...

During the more than three years he spent in C.I.A. prisons before being sent to Guantánamo Bay, Majid Khan says he was hung from his wrist...

As Studs Terkel was fond of saying "hope dies last." It is with that saying in mind that I provide this link as to what my (democr...

Following Justice Breyer's statement yesterday in an order denying the writ in Al-Awli's case the Los Angelos times, in an editorial...