White House pledges to continue transfer of Guantanamo Bay inmates
The White House plans to transfer more inmates out of the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba before Donald Trump is inaugurated as president on January 20.
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Guantanamo closure unlikely after Obama signs defence bill
Obama’s signing of the Congressional defence spending bill for 2016 on Wednesday reduced the odds that he would see the controversial facility at a US base on Cuba closed before he leaves the White House in early 2017
US Congress passes bill complicating Obama’s plans to close Guantanamo
A bill that extends the ban on transferring Guantanamo prisonors to the US mainland has sailed through Congress. Its passage will complicate President Barack Obama’s efforts to close the notorious prison. The US Senate on Tuesday passed the bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a vote of 91-3, a week after …
US blocks release of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainee
The US Justice Department has argued against the release of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who has been on hunger strike for more than eight years. The detainee has been held at the base in Cuba since 2002. Lawyers for Yemeni prisoner Tariq Ba Odah had issued a request for their client’s immediate release on …
Guantanamo: Where US terror prisoners occupy Cuban soil
Barack Obama would like to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba before the end of his term. The Cubans would like to have the entire base back. And the US Congress is opposed to both ideas, Kersten Knipp writes. Oh the things that Cuba could offer! Pineapples, coconuts, oranges and bananas, as well as potatoes, lettuce and…
A failure of democracy and human rights
By Dr Cesar Chelala It is a sad day for democracy when 12 Nobel Peace Laureates write a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to close one of the darkest chapters of recent US history by acknowledging, and then rejecting, the “flagrant use of torture and other violations of international law” that had been …
An unlearned lesson from 9/11
By Dr Cesar Chelala On a rainy morning in April 1958, in Washington DC, Ezra Pound – then a 72-year-old man – was declared “incurably insane” by Judge Bolitha J. Laws, who set him free. As he prepared to leave for Italy, Pound declared: “Any man who could live in America is insane.” I wonder what Pound – …
Suicide underscores grim conditions at Guantanamo
Other Guantanamo detainees have reported finding “scissors and sharp objects in their cells”
9/11 defendants skip Guantanamo hearing
The defendants had asked that Friday’s proceedings be cancelled out of respect for their Muslim faith.
Names of 55 Guantánamo detainees released
US Department of Justice discloses list of 55 prisoners cleared for release
Last Egyptian case in Guantanamo to be reviewed
Al-Sawah was detained in Guantanamo in early 2002, and accused of being affiliated with Al-Qaeda
Egyptian FM requests release of Guantanamo prisoner
Foreign Ministry has officially requested the release of Egypt’s last prisoner in Guantanamo Bay military prison