US stands firm over prisoners
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prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans. would spare 62-year-old Kenneth Bigley after the body of American Jack Hensley was recovered in Baghdad.
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The last Britons freed from the US jail for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were in custody as the British authorities decide whether to charge them under anti-terrorism laws.
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The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.
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The U.S. military is taking as few prisoners as possible in its campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, partly to forestall more complaints about its conduct after at least eight prisoners died in custody, an American commander said Monday.
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THE White House says it expects new documented accounts of torture at Guantanamo Bay to be &quot;fully investigated&quot;, but has denied claims George W. Bush personally approved the use of abusive methods against detainees at the US prison camp.
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The White House on Tuesday said it disagreed with rulings by U.S. military judges to drop all war crimes charges against two Guantanamo prisoners facing trial, and that the Defense Department was considering whether to appeal.
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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 US denies that a female prisoner in Iraq is to be freed, as a British hostage's family awaits news of his fate.
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A US military tribunal has determined that a detainee held at the US naval base prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is not an &quot;enemy combatant,&quot; and the US government will release
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WASHINGTON, Sept 22  - US authorities on Wednesday defended a decision to deny entry to former British pop star Cat Stevens and deport him back to Britain &quot;on national security grounds.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - U.S. military review panels have decided not to release 10 Guantanamo Bay detainees, concluding they were properly classified as "enemy combatants," a military official said Saturday...
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A federal judge on Wednesday questioned the Bush administration's broad definition of its powers to indefinitely imprison alleged Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, especially those who have never taken up arms against the United States.
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: With time running out to save a British hostage in Iraq, US officials said today they were not about to free female Iraqi prisoners as demanded by an al Qaida ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans.
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The United States is  exposing deportees to the risk of torture by accepting the word  of foreign governments that prisoners won&#39;t be tortured if sent  home, lawyers for an Egyptian detainee argued on Thursday.
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U.S. military review tribunals have ordered five more prisoners to remain held as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a Navy official said Saturday.
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A US-based human rights group says at least 11 al-Qaida suspects have &quot;disappeared&quot; in US custody, and that some may have been tortured.
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The US military says some senior Iraqi prisoners are refusing meals, but Saddam Hussein is not among them.