Detainee Rights at Center Of Fight
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RICHMOND, Feb. 1 -- The Bush administration argued Thursday that a Qatari national who it says was an al-Qaeda sleeper agent sent to the United States for a second wave of terrorist attacks has no right to challenge in court his status as an enemy combatant.
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Military tribunals are scheduled to begin Friday for 14 high-value foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the hearings to determine whether they are enemy combatants will take place behind closed doors because of the risk that top-secret information could surface, defense officials said yesterday....
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U.S. military panels reviewed the legal status of two prisoners Saturday, though one man refused to attend his hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Jose Padillaâs detention became the centerpiece of a debate over the Bush administrationâs prosecution of terrorism.
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The Supreme Court&#039;s rebuff of the Bush administration&#039;s Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguing on Capitol Hill on the legal rights of detainees.
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A divided judicial panel ruled this morning that hundreds of foreign nationals detained for as long as five years at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay do not have rights to challenge their indefinite imprisonment through the U.S. court system.
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WASHINGTON -- A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was much broader than the Bush administration has portrayed it since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal became public this spring.
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A US federal judge has ruled that terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba must be allowed to meet lawyers. The ruling also forbids the US government from monitoring their conversations.
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Two foreign prisoners at the US &quot;war on terror&quot; detention camp at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have asked the US Supreme Court to rule on their legal rights under the US Constitution.
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The Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo puts the brakes on what has been a sharp expansion of executive powers and raises fresh questions about other aspects of President Bush&#039;s war-on-terror policy.
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Fourteen "high-value" terrorism suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from secret CIA prisons last year have been formally offered the right to request lawyers, a move that could allow them to join other detainees in challenging their status as enemy combatants in a U.S. appellate...
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Members of a U.S. military commission are being challenged by defense attorneys who say their ties to the war on terror could affect their ability to fairly judge four detainees charged with war crimes.
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Foreign detainees being held in Britain are challenging the country's anti-terrorist legislation, under which they could be held indefinitely, at the European Court of human rights, The Guardian reports.
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Guantanamo prisoners and other foreigners got a step closer to regaining the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts in a bill approved in a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.
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Law Lords are to rule on how far the government can restrict human rights in its bid to combat terrorism.
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Military court proceedings for terror suspects are due to start at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.