President Barack Obama’s administration opposes the release of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who has never been charged with a crime, weighs around 75 pounds, and is near death. But the administration...
The Obama administration renewed its legal fight against a hunger-striking Guantanamo detainee, telling a federal court Friday the man wasn’t entitled to an order freeing him from the prison despite...
U.S. Justice Department lawyers on Friday blocked a legal request that a Guantanamo Bay detainee who weighs just 74 lbs (33.5 kg) after an eight-year hunger strike be released for health reasons...
The administration of President Barack Obama urged a federal judge on Friday not to order the release of a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay who has been on hunger strike for more than eight years and is...
In a maneuver blasted by constitutional rights experts as "rare and unusual," the Obama administration late on Friday submitted a long-awaited filing urging a federal judge not to order the release...
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is nothing if not ambitious. Not content with being the Golden State's top law enforcement officer--a position she has held since 2011, after serving seven...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Friday submitted a sealed document [The Guardian report] in opposition to the habeas corpus petition of Tariq Ba Odah, despite a 2009...
The Justice Department has requested a federal appeals court revisit and reverse its decision to revive a lawsuit against former Justice Department officials, who allegedly violated the rights of...
An Afghan man described as “one of the most compliant detainees at Guantánamo” goes before a national security parole board Tuesday seeking repatriation. Mohammed Kamin, about 37, got to the U.S...
August 18, 2015, Guantánamo – Today, an attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) at Guantánamo to recommend that Mohammed Kamin be cleared for...
