An Owings Mills High School graduate who helped al-Qaida carry out a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia endured years of torture by the CIA, including being waterboarded in an ice bath, his lawyers...
Changes in solitary confinement procedures in California prisons are at the core of a legal settlement announced Tuesday. The agreement in federal court between the state and a group of inmates held...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in Jesner v. Arab Bank ostensibly on the question of whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) applies to corporations. There is a risk, however, that the...
Article discussing the difficulty the Pentagon has been facing in expediting the military tribunals, from problems of obtaining lawyers to represent the detainees to figuring out how to mitigate the...
A federal court of appels on Friday reinstated a case brought by four Iraqis who allege they were tortured by employees of CACI while they were held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq...
"The military command at Guantánamo Bay has stopped honoring security clearances for attorneys representing the only detainee who has agreed to testify against the 9/11 defendants, the Guardian has...
"When we were sentenced to death," wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, "we weren't sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept...
October 29, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ The military commission sentencing hearing of a man tortured and imprisoned by the U.S. for eighteen years concluded today, paving the way for his transfer...
..."The US government has a legal obligation and a moral responsibility to follow up on men who are transferred out of long-term military custody, and to ensure that they aren't tortured or killed,"...
Last Friday, October 14, marked one year since reforms began under the historic settlement agreement in CCR’s case Ashker v. Brown , which effectively ended long-term solitary confinement throughout...
