January 17, 2017As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
Although President Obama ended the U.S. torture program, there have been no prosecutions or accountability within the U.S. Now with the incoming Trump administration, there is the real danger that...
Updated: January 20, 2017
January 19, 2017...Shayana Kadidal, the lead attorney for Guantánamo cases with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the Algerian detainee, expressed frustration with the Obama administration for...
January 18, 2017A Guantánamo prisoner from Algeria on Wednesday lost a last-minute legal maneuver to go home before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. A U.S. government review board approved the repatriation...
January 18, 2017It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
January 18, 2017Over the next 48 hours, US military cargo planes will deposit a handful of detainees from Guantánamo Bay to new lives overseas for what is likely to be the final time for at least four years. Barack...
January 18, 2017A Guantanamo prisoner from Algeria lost a last-minute legal maneuver Wednesday to go home before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington declined...
January 19, 2017A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday refused to intervene to overturn a Defense Department decision to continue the detention of Algerian prisoner Sufyian...
January 19, 2017...Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which still has four clients remaining at Guantánamo, slammed the Obama White House for saying it wanted to close the facility but then...
January 22, 2017Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the Algerian prisoner, said the Obama administration's instinct to fight off legal challenges...
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