Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention

Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention

The Independent

By Leonard Doyle in Washington Published: 27 October 2007

An American military lawyer and veteran of dozens of secret Guantanamo tribunals has made a devastating attack on the legal process for determining whether Guantanamo prisoners are "enemy combatants".

CCR Release: Supreme Court Denies Immediate Review of Guatanamo Cases

Supreme Court Denies Immediate Review of Guatanamo Cases

CCR Disappointed That Clients May Wait Another Year In Detention Without Meaningful Way To Challenge Imprisonment

New York and Washington, DC - The Supreme Court announced today that it would not be hearing the cases of the Guantánamo detainees for the time being. The Court denied the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel's motion to hear the case with three justices dissenting and two issuing a statement that the detainees should exhaust the process set up by the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA), allowing for limited appeals from the decisions of military review panels, before they would consider ruling on constitutional questions. Attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights expressed disappointment with the ruling.

Peace Activists Advocate Closing Detention Center

Peace activists advocate closing detention center
By Jennifer MacGregor, News Writer
Brown and White, Lehigh University Student Newspaper
3/1/2007

After years of the believed abuse and torture of prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba, members of the nonviolent activist group, Witness Against Torture, demanded the release of the prisoners Monday in Maginnes Hall.

Murtha will press for closure of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib

By Renee Schoof and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives' top lawmaker in charge of defense spending said Friday that he intends to force the closure of the scandal-plagued Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay military prisons and curb U.S. engagement in Iraq, and that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "absolutely" supports his efforts.

Guantanamo Protesters Arrested in D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 100 protesters were arrested inside a federal courthouse Thursday after a brief demonstration calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The group - which had a permit for a demonstration outside the courthouse - began singing and chanting as they were led away in small groups, their hands bound by plastic cuffs.

Protests swirl on fifth anniversary of Guantanamo

Detainee's mother in tears after long trek to Guantanamo gates, 90 protesters arrested in Washington.

By Patrick Moser - GUANTANAMO, Cuba

Demonstrators in mock prison garb rallied here and around the globe Thursday calling for the US prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, to be closed, five years after its first "war on terror" detainee arrived.

Local Quakers to join international protest

Local Quakers to join international protest
The Times-Standard
Eureka Times Standard
01/05/2007

EUREKA -- Humboldt Quakers have scheduled a news conference next week to discuss their participation in an international protest to mark the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba.

Bahrain Joins International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo

Juma’s family wants Camp Delta closed
Al Dossary is in mental hospital

Bahrain Tribune, Sunday, December 24, 2006

Sandeep Singh Grewal
Staff Reporter

The family members of Juma Al Dossary are demanding the closure of Camp Delta. The call comes as the international day to demand the shutting down of Guantanamo Bay will be held on January 11. It would be the fifth anniversary of the first prisoners to be brought to the Camp.

Who are the prisoners of Guantánamo?

The Bush administration has repeatedly described the 450-500 men detained at Guantanamo as "the worst of the worst." In the words of Vice President Dick Cheney (June 23, 2005), "The people that are there are people we picked up on the battlefield, primarily in Afghanistan. They’re terrorists. They’re bomb makers. They’re facilitators of terror. They’re members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban….We’ve let go those that we’ve deemed not to be a continuing threat. But the 520-some that are there now are serious, deadly threats to the United States." [1] Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called them the "most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth." [2]

New York Times Editorial on Guantanamo Suicides

Editorial
The Deaths at Gitmo

Published: June 12, 2006

The news that three inmates at Guantánamo Bay hanged themselves should not have surprised anyone who has paid the slightest attention to the twisted history of the camp that President Bush built for selected prisoners from Afghanistan and antiterrorist operations. It was the inevitable result of creating a netherworld of despair beyond the laws of civilized nations, where men were to be held without any hope of decent treatment, impartial justice or, in so many cases, even eventual release.