Attorneys: Obama must follow through promptly with release August 11, 2016, Arlington, VA – Today, a Periodic Review Board (PRB) made public its decision to clear Guantánamo detainee Sufyian Barhoumi...
After over 14 years of detention in Guantánamo without charge, Zahir Hamdoun today earned his freedom, transferred along with 14 other men from US custody to the United Arab Emirates. Zahir, a Yemeni...
...Barhoumi’s attorney, Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, urged the Algerian’s speedy repatriation, noting that time was running out on Barack Obama’s pledge to close the...
President Barack Obama’s multi-agency Periodic Review Board (PRB) has approved an al Qaeda-linked Algerian prisoner for release from the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,...
Attorneys: Release must mean restoration of basic freedoms August 15, 2016, New York – Today, the Department of Defense announced the transfer from Guantánamo to the United Arab Emirates of Center...
... "During a phone call before his release, Mr. Hamdoun said he felt happy and hopeful — a remarkable sentiment from a man who has lived through hell in Guantanamo and lost over 14 years of his life...
...Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights said that Hamdoun, a former “forever prisoner,” was “happy and hopeful” in a telephone call with his lawyer just before his...
... Among those released is Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantánamo without charge since 2002, when he was 22 years old. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents...
...Time is running out, but even if Obama does close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, lawyers like Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights says it doesn't address a fundamental problem...
Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
