September 14 th , 2010 11:00 am- 12:15 pm Constitution Day Speaker and Lunch Ballroom C Speaker: Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney [center for constitutional rights] Immigration, Human Rights, and the...
Updated: September 9, 2010
February 2007Federal appeals court upholds new law which denies federal judges the right to review Guantanamo detainees' challenges to their detention.
April 2007Justice department asks a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees.
August 2007District court judge Ricardo Urbina dismisses legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees and bars attorneys access to their clients.
May 2007Pentagon lawyer testifies that the Bush administration never planned to provide defense attorneys with the names of detainees.
Rumsfeld justifies the detention of an American-born prisoner captured in Afghanistan.
September 200714 terrorism suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo from secret CIA prisons have been formally offered the right to request lawyers.
November 2006Judge dismisses war crimes case brought by Lebanese citizens against Israeli official Ya'alon.
February 2007Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
February 2008Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
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