Lawyers for 3 Gitmo detainees slam rules
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Tight deadlines, rules allowing hearsay evidence and limited access to Guantanamo Bay will hamper efforts to defend three detainees facing military trials at the Navy base in southeast Cuba, their attorneys say.
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A British detainee said he has been abused in Guantanamo, adding he witnessed the deaths of two other detainees at the hands of US military personnel, according to a letter sent to his lawyers.
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New U.S. rules for war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo fail to correct fundamental flaws that are undermining Western efforts to defeat global terrorism, the British government's top lawyer said on Monday.
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A United Nations human rights  investigator said his visit to the U.S. military facility in  Guantanamo Bay last week left him wondering whether it would be  possible for detainees' lawyers to mount an adequate defense.
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The Bush administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in an effort to limit the information it must provide when Guantanamo Bay prisoners challenge their continued captivity.
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Defense lawyers and human rights activists praised Thursday&#039;s Supreme Court decision rejecting military war crimes trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, but most felt it likely won&#039;t force a quick shutdown of the prison.
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Defense lawyers said Friday that authorities at the Guantanamo Bay prison confiscated letters to detainees and other legal papers as part of an investigation into three apparent suicides three weeks ago at the facility.
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A U.S. lawyer accused of helping a  radical Muslim cleric smuggle terrorist messages out of prison  insisted on Wednesday that she had followed the ethical rules  that guide attorneys' behavior.
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The Bush administration is taking the narrowest possible view of legal rights the Supreme Court gave to terrorism detainees while trying to fend off any new court challenges. Ultimately the high court probably will weigh in again, lawyers said.
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Detainees held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay are likely take their legal fight back to the US Supreme Court, but the new Congress may step in to give the terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in US courts.
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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 NAVAL BASE, Cuba Aug. 26, 2004 - In a dramatic turn that silenced defense lawyers, a Yemeni poet accused of crafting terrorist propaganda argued on Thursday to represent himself before a US
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Each day, detainees in GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, argue before anonymous military officers that they should not be there. The hearings have come under heavy criticism.
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U.N. human rights investigators criticized the United States on Thursday for failing to take steps to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison for terror suspects, which they say facilitates torture and violates international law.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba- Prosecutors and defense attorneys tested microphones and arguments Monday ahead of the first arraignments of suspected terrorists at the US naval base here, while human rights groups criticized the US military for barring
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In a challenge that could make or break upcoming trials by a special military commission, defense lawyers are moving to dismiss terrorism charges against
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A new U.S. plan to try suspected  terrorists at Guantanamo would grant a few more rights to  prisoners charged with war crimes but strip away all legal  recourse for the majority who will never face charges.