Libyan Detainee, Fearing Torture, Fights Transfer Home
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Abdul Ra'ouf Omar Mohammed Abu al-Qassim has been held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than five years, and he longs to leave it. But the one place the U.S. government is willing to send the "enemy combatant" -- his native  Libya is the country Qassim fears most.
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The government says it will free an Algerian terror suspect held for more than two and half years under tough laws brought in following the September 11 attacks, after saying it can no longer justify holding the man.
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Defense attorneys for detainees who have spent years at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said the 14 high-value terrorism suspects transferred there Monday are entering a prison that appears to be increasingly restrictive.
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A Guantanamo Bay detainee from Saudi Arabia -- who is also the brother-in-law of a September 11, 2001, hijacker -- faces terrorism charges, the U.S. Office of Military Commissions said Friday.
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U.S. authorities in late 2001 forcibly transferred an Australian citizen to Egypt, where, he alleges, he was tortured for six months before being flown to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court papers made public.
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An Australian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mamdouh Habib, has received support in his effort to dispel allegations of his being an Al-Qaeda agent, after a respected psychiatrist backed his assertions he had been tortured in US custody.
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The U.S. government cannot deport  an Egyptian man accused of murder in his homeland because of  the risk he would be tortured if he were returned, a federal  judge ruled on Thursday.
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An Australian terror suspect detained in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks alleges he was transferred by U.S. authorities to Egypt, where he says he was tortured with beatings, electric shocks and nearly drowned while being interrogated.
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Â· Fear of rising al-Qaida link in CaribbeanÂ· Fugitive suspect thought to be hiding in Trinidad
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A British detainee was reportedly tortured at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for reciting the Koran when talking was banned.
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania  - The United States is exposing deportees to the risk of torture by accepting the word of foreign governments that prisoners won't be tortured if sent home, lawyers for an Egyptian detainee argued on Thursday.
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The transfer of 14 foreign terrorism   suspects from CIA prisons abroad to the U.S. military prison at   Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resolved a two-year debate in the Bush   administration over its detention policy, The Washington Post   reported on Thursday.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- A former driver for Osama bin Laden whose lawsuit led to a judge's finding that the Bush administration violated the Geneva Convention told his lawyer this week that he was returned to ''de facto isolation" here in defiance of a court order.
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Fresh accusations of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay prison emerge during the trial of five detainees transferred to Morocco.
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Algeria takes custody of one of its most wanted terror suspects, handed over by Libya, the government says.
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A prisoner accused of traveling to Afghanistan for military training and staying at an al-Qaida safehouse refused Friday to attend a military review tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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U.N. human rights experts Friday expressed concern about possible "irreversible psychiatric symptoms" developing among suspected terrorists entering a fourth year of virtual solitary confinement at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.