UN expert seeks guantanamo release
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A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to try release suspects detained as enemy combatants and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell urges the immediate closure of the US prison in Guantanamo Bay.
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The United Nations renewed an appeal for the safe release of three UN workers taken hostage in Afghanistan by a shadowy group of Islamic militants.
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The top human rights official at the United Nations urged the U.S. to abolish its use of CIA secret prisons for suspected terrorists, her spokesman said Friday.
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A television cameraman who has been held at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison since 2001 is suffering medical problems due to a long hunger strike and must be released immediately, a leading journalist group said.
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A military translator accused of  espionage at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, asked a  military judge on Tuesday to drop some charges after the  prosecution acknowledged detainee letters found in his  possession were not classified.
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The families of six Bosnian citizens detained by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, demanded on Monday that Bosnia ask the United States to release them.
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The Pentagon's chief prosecutor in  the U.S. military trials of four Guantanamo Bay prisoners has  asked the presiding officer to evaluate his suitability for the  position and consider quitting, according to a document filed  in the proceedings.
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A prisoner with alleged links to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime and an accused gold smuggler for al-Qaida appeared before a review tribunal Tuesday at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
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A Swiss forensic expert hired by an Arab rights group to carry out an autopsy on a Yemeni detainee found hanged in his cell at the Guantanamo Bay military prison said Friday that suicide was possible.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped UN workers demanded yesterday the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostages' lives.
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A Kuwaiti heading a group lobbying for the release of his countrymen being held as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, urged their U.S. captors on Sunday not to torture prisoners.
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he favors immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to U.S. facilities.
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LONDON  - A British man freed last month after almost three years in Guantanamo Bay says he was physically and verbally abused during interrogation sessions at the U.S. detention camp for terrorist suspects.
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The tape called for kidnappings to try to force the release of a high-profile Muslim cleric imprisoned in the U.S.
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The United Nations appealed Thursday to the Taliban-linked kidnappers of three of its staff in Afghanistan to release them in time for a Muslim festival starting this weekend.
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A U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday he found on a recent visit to Guantanamo Bay that the prison camp is not meeting international justice standards.