A new federal lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. government to make public “extremely disturbing” videotapes of a Saudi national, Mohammed al-Qahtani, whose abuse at the Guantanamo Bay...
"New York City police unions protesting the city's agreement to settle lawsuits on stop-and-frisk practices waited too long before trying to insert themselves into the high-profile litigation,...
" ne of the remaining few convictions at a military court at the U.S. base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, appears to be on shaky ground. ..." Read the full piece here.
Twelve years ago today, 23-year-old U.S. human rights defender Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while peacefully protecting Palestinian homes in Gaza from...
In a blistering opinion Tuesday, a federal appeals court revived a lawsuit challenging extensive surveillance the New York Police Department conducted of Muslims in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001...
President Obama is a prisoner of the Guantanamo prison. Unveiling a new plan to close it, he elicited modest attention Tuesday. Political media are immersed in the campaign to find his successor,...
Mustafa al Shamiri spent most of his years at Guantánamo wrongly described as an al-Qaida trainer and facilitator, a captive of consequence, until his first parole-style hearing revealed an...
A detainee who had been on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay for nine years has been transferred out of the facility, the Obama administration announced Saturday. According to a statement from the...
On Wednesday, the trailblazing attorney Michael Ratner died at the age of 72. In recent years, Ratner served as the chief attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and became a leading critic of...
Four former inmates of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison will now be able to sue over alleged torture by United States military contractors. A US federal appeals court reinstated the lawsuit on...
