Ruling on detainees reignites debate
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WASHINGTON -- The decision by US military judges Monday to dismiss the war crimes charges against two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has reignited a debate over how to try those accused of terrorism, prompting members of Congress to challenge the Bush administration over a legal system they say denies proper rights to detainees and has yet to bring ...
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Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees held more than five years without charges asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in a third time to guarantee that they can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts.
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After years of indefinite confinement, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay say they feel they may never receive justice, according to transcripts of hearings obtained by The Associated Press. Fewer than one in five of detainees allowed a hearing last year even bothered to show up for it.
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Prosecutors in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions have appealed the dismissal of war crimes charges against a Canadian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, continuing their argument that detainees in U.S. custody can be tried under Congress's new rules for military commissions.
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A federal judge has ordered a civilian court hearing for Osama bin Laden&#39;s driver, a landmark ruling that throws into question the Bush Administration&#39;s plans
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WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department said yesterday that it will ask two judges to reconsider their decisions from earlier this week that stalled the military's attempt to put detainees at Guantanamo Bay on 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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A jailed toddler and the hunt for Al Qaeda in Waziristan have renewed debate on tribal law.
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Suspected terrorists challenging their detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should have access to limited classified government material while the Bush administration seeks to stop their lawsuits in federal appeals court, a judge said Thursday.
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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 new law pushes the door open a bit toward reconciliation but contentious issues remain, including the freedom of thousands of Sunni detainees
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A federal judge ordered the government to justify why it has been holding detainees in a U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly three years without charges and explain why they should not be released.
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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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The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-born terrorism suspects.
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Disagreements over the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the U.S., foreshadow a debate over interrogation methods.
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A federal judge expressed skepticism yesterday that he should order a special judicial probe into whether the Bush administration could have destroyed evidence related to suspected enemy fighters at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, because of the CIA's recent acknowledgment that it...
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The Bush administration today criticized the decision by military judges to dismiss war crimes charges against two men being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and defended the system of military commissions set up to try detainees at the facility.