November 2, 2015A freshly unsealed war court document shows an American-educated former al-Qaida courier turned government witness has agreed to postpone his Guantánamo sentencing hearing by three years. Majid Khan...
November 4, 2015“ Guantánamo Is Leaving Obama With Choices, Neither of Them Simple ” (news article, Nov. 1) is wrong to imply that President Obama has only two choices: fail to close Guantánamo or do so by violating...
September 11, 2011In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush shredded the U.S. Constitution, trampled on the Bill of Rights, discarded the Geneva Conventions, and heaped scorn on the...
November 17, 2015Last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris left 172 people dead, hundreds more injured, and the world reeling in grief and recoiling in horror. The carnage in Beirut drew little Western media...
November 8, 2015The Pentagon is expected this week to unveil a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and move terrorists to U.S. soil, suggesting prisons such as the Supermax in Colorado that houses...
November 11, 2015After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
November 26, 2015Today, fourteen American activists with the grassroots group Witness Against Torture are holding a vigil outside Guantánamo prison in a gesture of solidarity with the dozens of Muslim men who remain...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will give a talk entitled “Challenging State Power in the 9/11 Era: Guantanamo, Profiling and Human Rights” on Tuesday, December 8 th , at 4:15 p.m. as part of the 2015-...
Updated: December 3, 2015
Zahir Hamdoun’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) proceedings are part of an administrative process the Obama administration established to review the cases of those Guantánamo detainees it has neither...
Updated: September 15, 2016
Zahir Hamdoun Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen born in 1979 in Hadramout, Yemen, was held without charge in Guantanamo for over fourteen years. The fifth of eight children, Mr. Hamdoun grew up in a...
Updated: August 15, 2016
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