U.S. Allows Civilian Lawyer to Go to Guantanamo
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For the first time, the U.S.  government has permitted a civilian lawyer to travel to  Guantanamo Bay to discuss with prisoners a legal challenge in  U.S. courts to their detention, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - The U.S. military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Guantanamo confinement of Osama bin Laden's driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive's war court hearing on Thursday.
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Senate Democrats are backing a bill that would grant new rights to terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including access to a lawyer regardless of whether the prisoners are put on trial.
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An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian citizen once held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, the man's lawyer said. The man was not convicted of any alleged extremist activities in Afghanistan.
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An American citizen who has been held by U.S. military forces in Iraq for more than two years cannot be transferred to Iraqi authorities for trial on terrorism charges, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
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A U.S. military tribunal convening Monday at Guantanamo will hear challenges from attorneys for a Canadian terror suspect accused of killing an American soldier when he was 15 Â an age they say should disqualify him from trial.
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David Hicks, an Australian charged with training with al-Qaeda, becomes one of the first Guantanamo Bay detainees to face a US military tribunal when he appears before a panel tomorrow, his military lawyer said.
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A US citizen held as an enemy combatant has been freed and returned to Saudi Arabia after the Supreme Court challenged his detention without charges for nearly three years, his lawyer said Monday.
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MIAMI, Feb. 16 -- Officials at the Navy brig where terrorism suspect Jose Padilla was held for 3 1/2  years as an enemy combatant were ordered  Friday to testify at a hearing to determine his psychological competency, a ruling that allows the defense to press its claims that sensory deprivation and torture in confinement have rendered the alleged  al-Qaeda operative unfit to stand trial....
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A U.S. federal court ruled Monday that Osama bin Laden's driver was entitled to a legal hearing on whether he is a prisoner of war &#151; a landmark opinion that could prevent military trials of alleged enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Fourteen "high-value" terrorism suspects who were transferred last year to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, from secret CIA prisons have been given legal forms to request lawyers, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
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A US court backs a law denying Guantanamo Bay detainees the right to challenge their detention.
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The U.S. announced the transfer Tuesday of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries, including one who, according to his lawyers, now may face abuse in Tunisia for nonviolent political activities.
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Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects  have the constitutional right to pursue lawsuits challenging  their imprisonment, a federal judge ruled on Monday in a defeat  for the Bush administration that struck down how the U.S.  military reviewed their cases.
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The U.S. military held its first hearing  at the Guantanamo naval base on Tuesday to assess whether a  prisoner it has affirmed as an "enemy combatant" should be  allowed to go home, a Pentagon spokesman said.
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A U.S. citizen who was captured on the Afghanistan battlefield and held without charges for nearly three years has been freed and returned to Saudi Arabia on Monday, his lawyer said.