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Guantanamo Review Board Recommends Yemeni Detainee For Transfer, Subject to Conditions
The detainee in question is Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid. -
Government Opposes Disclosure of Force-Feeding Protocols; Detainees Respond
Two more developments in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal before the D.C. Circuit. On December 30, the government filed its opposition to the detainees' motion for an order directing the... -
John Rizzo on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
This must read exerpt from John Rizzo's forthcoming book bears the provocative title, "I Could Have Stopped Waterboarding Before It Happened." It's a fascinating insider account from the 30-year veteran... -
Guantanamo Special Envoy Cliff Sloan on Transfers
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Afghanistan on Verge of Releasing 88 Former US-Held Detainees, Over US Objections
On New Year's Eve the New York Times reported that the Karzai Administration has given preliminary approval for the release of 88 Afghan detainees who were once held in US custody in Afghanistan and who ... -
The Last Uighurs
The Obama Administration's Guantanamo envoys Clifford Sloan and Paul Lewis (at State and DoD respectively) should be commended for their hard work to resettle the last of the 22 Uighurs from Guantanamo. ... -
Remaining Ethnic Uighur Chinese Detainees Transferred from Guantanamo
Today the Department of Defense announced that Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper have been transferred to the government of Slovakia, and will voluntarily settle in that country. ... -
The D.C. Circuit's Opinion in the Bagram Habeas Petitions
On Christmas Eve, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its opinion in a habeas appeal brought by three detainees held by the United States at Bagram Air Force Base's Parwan detention facil... -
A Cert Petition in Hedges v. Obama
It was filed two Mondays ago, evidently, in this long-running detention case; I've only seen the Westlaw version, which interested readers can access here. -
Abdullah Files His Reply-Brief Before the D.C. Circuit
As Raffaela previously noted, the case of Abdullah v. Obama is an exercise in "heel dragging and losing arguments." A brief refresher on the case: the legal saga started when Guantanamo detainee Hani Sal... -
Cert Petition Filed in Al Warafi v. Obama
Shortly before Christmas, counsel for Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in his habeas petition, having been denied earlier this year an en banc re... -
Al Laithi Reply Brief Before the D.C. Circuit: Defining the Scope of Employment
In response to the government's brief, counsel for the Plaintiffs in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld et. al. filed a reply brief on Dec. 18th. (The Plaintiffs---all former Guantanamo detainees---allege various a...
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