CIA Torture Cover-Up Still Looms Over 9/11 Trials at Guantánamo
By Brett Wilkins U.S. war crimes in the so-called War on Terror were back in the spotlight Tuesday as pretrial hearings for alleged 9/11 mastermind…
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Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is “Past Time” to Finally Close Guantánamo
By Jessica Corbett Echoing recent demands from human rights advocates and former detainees, two dozens members of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus on Friday pressed…
Gitmo Torture Survivor Asks Court to Reject Eleventh-Hour Trump Bid to Deny Medical Evaluation
Lawyers representing Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani are urging a federal judge to deny an effort by the Trump administration in its final days to reverse a…
Amnesty Calls on Biden to Close Guantánamo and End Military Commissions “Once and For All”
By Jessica Corbett After U.S. military prosecutors filed formal charges against three longtime prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay offshore prison for nearly 15 years without…
Plans for Wheelchair-Accessible Cells at Gitmo Paint “Chilling Picture” of Detainees Held Without Trial For Rest of Their Lives
By Julia Conley Newly-revealed plans for expanding the Guantanamo Bay prison confirm that the future of the facility focuses on keeping detainees there well into…
Bolton Threatens to Send Venezuela’s Maduro to Guantánamo Bay Prison
By Jessica Corbett (CD) — National Security Adviser John Bolton—the neoconservative who’s played a key role in the Trump administration’s effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government—suggested on Friday that President Nicolás…
Trump Just Signed an Executive Order to Keep Guantanamo Bay Open
By Jason Ditz President Trump has signed an executive order that is intended to reverse President Obama’s intentions to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay….
Trump Trounces 6th Amendment, Says Americans Should be Hauled Before Military Tribunals at Guantánamo
By Kurt Nimmo During an interview Thursday with The Miami Herald, Donald Trump advocated prosecuting American citizens with military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rather…
Extrajudicially Held Guantanamo Detainee to be Released
By Stephen Lendman Guantanamo remains a black hole of US extrajudicial viciousness, hundreds of innocent men and boys (all Muslims, most sold for bounty) held…
Senior Obama Admin. Official Claims Americans Have Been Killed By Released GITMO Detainees
By Joseph Jankowski Paul Lewis, a senior Obama Administration official, testified in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that former detainees from Guantanamo Bay have…
US Lectures Cuba on Human Rights Across From Own Torture Dungeon
By Tony Cartalucci US President Barrack Obama paid what the Western media hailed as a “historic” visit to Cuba, after decades of isolation imposed upon…
Obama Administration Doesn’t Want Anyone Seeing the Guantánamo Force-Feeding Videos
By Derrick Broze On Thursday the Obama administration announced its intention to appeal a federal judge’s order to release video tapes from the Guantanamo Bay…
Documents Reveal Innocent Man was Caged and Tortured at Gitmo for 13 years – by Mistake
By John Vibes After 13 years of holding him in an inhumane and lawless prison, US officials admitted that Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri should have never been…
Shaker Aamer, Last British Guantanamo Detainee Released Without Charge After 14 Years
By Michaela Whitton Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo Bay, was released on Friday after being detained without charge for almost 14 years….