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US Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantánamo appeals The US Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 vote Monday not to hear appeals from two groups of prisoners seeking to challenge in federal court their incarceration in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. The prisoners have been held for as many as five years at the notorious prison and been placed outside the protection of both US and international law....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 6:26am PDT
Show Trials and Gag Orders For Gitmo Detainees 
On April 2nd, the US Supreme Court refused to grant review to a lower court ruling which upheld the constitutionality of the habeas corpus-stripping provision of the Military Commissions Act. The Australian David Hicks was the first Guantanamo prisoner to plead guilty; in exchange for being released in nine months he was ordered to not talk to the press until after the upcoming Australian elections. Several higher profile detainees were transfered from more secretive CIA run prisons to Guanta...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 7:44pm PDT
Coming Up Short on Habeas Corpus for Gitmo Detainees The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 7:23pm PDT
Short shrift for Guantanamo inmates The US supreme court has decided not to revisit, for now, the issue of whether Guantanamo detainees have a right to a civil court action to declare their indefinite detention unlawful, although several judges said they will be sympathetic to future requests....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 7:01pm PDT
Briton tells of Guantanamo ordeal A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after being held for more than four years has said that the US failed to observe fair legal processes at the detention camp....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 12:06pm PDT
Gitmo detainee's plea deal angers some legal experts The first war-crimes trial here drew outrage Saturday from legal experts who described it as a perversion of the rule of law that may fatally discredit the Pentagon's already disparaged handling of terrorism suspects....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 9:48am PDT
Guantánamo’s kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks The sham trial of Australian detainee David Hicks at the Bush administration’s prison camp at Guantánamo Bay is drawing to a close. Yesterday presiding judge Colonel Ralph Kohlman formally convicted Hicks on one charge of “providing material support for terrorism”, and released the details of a plea bargain that will return Hicks to Australia to serve his jail term. The deal provides for a maximum of seven years, but all but nine months have been suspended....
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 9:47am PDT
Guantánamo prisoner charges confession extracted through torture A Guantánamo detainee has charged that he was tortured into confessing to a role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 41, a Saudi national of Yemeni descent, said he faced years of torture following his arrest in 2002 and that he fabricated stories to satisfy his captors....
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 9:46am PDT
David Hicks to serve nine-month sentence A US military tribunal has handed a nine-month prison sentence to Australian David Hicks for training with al-Qaeda....
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 9:45am PDT
House Armed Services Committee Examines Military Commissions Act WASHINGTON - As the House Armed Services Committee met to consider the Military Commissions Act, the American Civil Liberties Union urged lawmakers to restore habeas corpus and other due process protections eliminated by that law. The hearing comes during the same week that the first commissions under the new law began in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 9:32am PDT
US Sent Guantanamo Detainees Home to Torture in Russia 
(New York, March 29, 2007) – Former Guantanamo detainees who were sent home to Russia in 2004 experienced torture and other abuse despite Moscow’s pledge to the US government that they would be treated humanely, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 7:18am PDT
Guantanamo: A kangaroo tribunal The fatal flaw of the White House's system of military tribunals is that few outside the Bush administration see them as anything like fair....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 4:40pm PDT
US: Stop the Guantanamo Circus Hicks Pleads Guilty; New Detainee Arrives...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 7:11am PDT
David Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo court After more than five years of imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay where he endured torture and protracted periods of solitary confinement, Australian citizen David Hicks finally pleaded guilty to one charge of “providing material support for terrorism” as part of a plea bargain to get out of the US hell-hole....
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 7:09am PDT
Gitmo Father Suspects Plea Deal GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - The unexpected guilty plea of an Australian who was the first Guantanamo detainee to stand trial before a military tribunal was likely linked to a deal with prosecutors, the man's father said Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 12:58pm PDT
David Hicks Becomes First Guantanamo Prisoner to Plead Guilty The Australian citizen David Hicks has become the first Guantanamo prisoner to plead guilty under the Military Commissions Act passed last year. Hicks entered the guilty plea Monday as part of a deal with military prosecutors. Hicks has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the past five years. We speak with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights....
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 7:57am PDT
Hicks to open Guantanamo tribunal Australian David Hicks is set to become the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to attend a hearing under revised US military tribunal rules....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 6:50am PDT
Military Commissions Act: Justice delayed and justice denied at Guantánamo (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB) On 26 March, the first proceeding under the Military Commission Act (MCA) is due to take place at Guantánamo with the arraignment of Australian detainee David Hicks. Another 23 detainees of 13 nationalities have currently been identified as potential defendants for trial by military commission....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 6:48am PDT
Amnesty Blasts "Show" Gitmo Trials CAIRO — Amnesty International blasted on Thursday, March 22, the US military trials of terror suspects held in Guantanamo as shameless shows lacking the basic principles of independence and impartiality of the court....
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 5:27pm PDT
Washington exploits Guantánamo “confession” to justify its crimes The American public was inundated Thursday with non-stop coverage of the confession allegedly given by the man accused by the Bush administration of orchestrating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York City and Washington....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:27am PDT