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Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantánamo Legacy
Since coming to power 15 months ago, promising to close Guantánamo within a year, and suspending the much-criticized Military Commission trial system for terror suspects, President Obama’s zeal for...
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Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims...
Yesterday was the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1997, to mark the ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture...
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Omar Khadr Accepts US Military Lawyer for Forthcoming Trial by Military...
In a turnaround from the defiant position he took last week, when he sacked his US lawyers and stated that he would either boycott his impending trial by Military Commission, or would represent...
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David Frakt Explains Why Guantánamo Prisoners Have Habeas Corpus Rights
On September 14, Lt. Col. David Frakt, a law professor and the former military defense attorney for two Guantánamo prisoners, debated whether terror suspects should be treated as “enemy combatants” or...
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No Justice for Omar Khadr at Guantánamo
Exactly two years ago, when I began writing a weekly column for the Future of Freedom Foundation on Guantánamo, torture and other crimes and abuses committed as part of the Bush administration’s “War...
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Is There No End to Republicans’ Abuse of Guantánamo Prisoners?
Every now and then I’m forcefully reminded of the extent to which Guantánamo is still used by unscrupulous lawmakers as a political plaything, even though it is a place where, by any objective measure,...
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Morris Davis, Former Guantánamo Chief Prosecutor, Nails Critics of the...
On Monday, I’ll be publishing my own detailed response to the outcome in the federal court trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, and the Republican hysteria that has arisen because the jury dismissed 284...
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“A Story About Lost and Broken Things”: Mohammed Jawad, A Child in...
Every now and then, someone in the mainstream media cuts through the general — and shameful — indifference about Guantánamo, publishing a powerful story that should change hearts and minds. This is the...
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WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo
In May 2008, in a submission to the 48th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (PDF), the Pentagon claimed that it had only held eight juveniles — those under the age of 18 when their...
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Rights Groups Tell Obama: Reward Those Who Opposed America’s Use of Torture...
In a significant gesture in the run-up to the UN International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, which takes place on June 26, and was inaugurated in 1998, on the 11th anniversary of the...
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