At least 17 detainees in Guantanamo Bay were subjected to the banned "frequent flyer" treatment where they were moved repeatedly from cell to cell to cause sleep deprivation prior to...
A former Haitian paramilitary leader, Emmaneul Constant, was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 years in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that cheated lenders out of $1.7 million.
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush...
The legal problem cited by the judge when he threw out the indictments against Blackwater guards was obvious to American government lawyers within days of the shooting. “It is regrettable that the...
US President Barack Obama's decision to suspend the repatriation of Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay is another blow to his hopes of closing the camp within the foreseeable future.
The U.S. government issued a license that enabled private lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of the CIA's targeting of terror suspect Anwar Alwaki, an American citizen living in Yemen.
In a first for a former Guantanamo captive freed by a federal judge, a Syrian man now living in Europe is suing the U.S. government for damages from what he calls a "Kafkaesque nightmare."
On Friday, May 11, 2012, a federal appellate court ruled that private military contractors allegedly complicit in torture at Abu Ghraib aren’t immune from prosecution. In post 9/11 America,...
