Bill Would Restore Detainees' Rights, Define 'Combatant'
102817
A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation yesterday that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what it means to be an "enemy combatant" against the United States, a measure designed to challenge laws ushered in by the...
337875
WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt...
717114
The U.S. Senate is likely this week  to pass a bill that outlines rules for interrogating terrorism  suspects and bringing them to trial, Senate Majority Leader  Bill Frist said on Sunday.
219323
The US president and rebel senators reach a deal on a controversial bill on interrogating terror suspects.
435517
The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said Tuesday all detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions.
449980
A United Nations human rights body said  on Friday it had asked the United States to spell out the legal  status and treatment of people it is detaining in Afghanistan,  Guantanamo Bay and Iraq by the end of the year.
222470
The two cases concern the rights of the GuantÃ¡namo detainees and the question of judicial review of the enemy-combatant designation.
127238
A House Republican has drafted a bill largely mimicking an administration plan to create military commissions to prosecute terror suspects, including a provision letting judges bar defendants from access to some evidence.
669996
The House of Representatives on   Wednesday passed a bill backed by President George W. Bush   setting rules for interrogating and trying foreign terrorism   suspects, dismissing warnings from Democrats that courts will   reject the plan.
614197
President Bush's stalled anti-terrorism agenda edged forward Tuesday, with a rebellious House member rewriting her bill on wiretaps more to his liking and maverick Senate Republicans reopening talks over how to handle detainees.
50527
The Senate vote on the detainee bill shows that party leaders believe the presidentÂs power to wield national security as a political issue is diminished.
334413
The Supreme Court said today that it would review the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees to challenge their confinements in federal court, reversing a decision in April not to take up that issue.
318342
Â· Internet industry asked to help curb illegal materialÂ· Terror bill proposes new powers against suspects
600788
WASHINGTON -- A military review has determined a second prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is wrongly classified as an enemy combatant, and he will be released to his home country soon, a Pentagon official said yesterday.
273251
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a   bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of   foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W.   Bush to sign into law.
561493
Bill restores rights of ex-Baath party members and ends a divisive legacy of bungled occupation
270784
Draft legislation to create a new system of military courts for terrorism suspects would allow prosecutors to introduce at future trials confessions that were obtained through "cruel, unusual, or inhumane" interrogations by the CIA or the military before 2005, but not afterward.