Al Hela poses the same central question posed by The Center for Constitutional Rights' Ali appeal : whether the Constitution’s Due Process Clause extends to individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay. Mr...
Updated: October 1, 2021
Sharqawi Al Hajj is a 47-year-old citizen of Yemen who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2004, after over two years in CIA sites. He faces the prospect of a death sentence in...
Updated: November 15, 2024
Espinoza Escalona v. Noem is a case seeking to block the removal to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station of ten noncitizen men currently in immigration detention in the United States who are nationals of...
Updated: March 13, 2025
Since February 4, 2025, in now daily flights, the government has reportedly transferred dozens of immigrants from the United States to Guantánamo. While their photos have been publicized—with scared...
Updated: June 12, 2025
October 2009When he took office, President Obama made clear that torture is illegal and that the United States would not abuse detainees in its custody. But when it comes to those tortured during the Bush...
April 2013"I’ve just returned from Guantanamo, where my clients and a majority of the other 166 men there have been on hunger strike for over two months. Most of them have been cleared for release or will...
February 2014by Pardiss Kebriaei Since 9/11, the Department of Justice has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism cases, yet there remains scant public understanding of what these federal cases have actually looked...
April 2014...Bihani has never been charged with a crime and is the youngest of seven sons to join the jihad in Afghanistan. Now, as the U.S. is extricating itself from Afghanistan, Bihani wants out of...
April 2013The United States has carried out dozens of operations in Yemen as part of an expanding program of “targeted killing.” While the government deployed cruise missiles in the strike in al-Majalah in...
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