Guest Post by Alex Fielding.
In a highly-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has ruled that Omar Khadr, a 22 year old Canadian citizen detained in Guantánamo Bay since 2002, will not be ordered home even though Canadian officials violated his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The SCC’s choice of [...]
Guest Post by Alex Fielding.
In a controversial move, President Obama recently ordered the transfer of Ahmed Ghailani from Guantánamo Bay to a New York federal court for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya which killed 224 people including 12 Americans. The Obama administration also intends to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, [...]
Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain has ordered prosecutors to investigate whether former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and several other high-ranking Bush administration lawyers violated international law by presenting a legal justification for torturing inmates at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. John Yoo (former Deputy Assistant Attorney General), Douglas Feith (former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy) [...]
Below is the complete text of Barack Obama’s Executive Orders calling for the closure of the Guantanamo detention center within one year
EXECUTIVE ORDER — REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of [...]
REUTERS
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Two dozen people who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing the Guantanamo war crimes trials as illegitimate, shameful and politically motivated.
Their criticism came in response to passionate praise for the Guantanamo tribunals from other victims’ relatives, whom the Pentagon [...]
There is an interesting article in today’s Irish Times on Obama’s election promise to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre. It begins:
“IN SPITE of Barack Obama’s election promises to close Guantánamo Bay detention centre, repeated in his first substantial post-election interview, and to “charge or release” detainees, the US president-elect is surely now realising that [...]