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  • Indefinite Detention Is Already Bad, Don't Add Discrimination
    Nov 29, 2012

    Late last year, Congress passed and the president signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2012. The NDAA codified, for the first time since a never-used McCarthy era law, indefinite detention without charge or trial.

  • US: Obama Should Veto NDAA if it Restricts Guantanamo Detainee Transfers
    Nov 27, 2012
    Human Rights Watch and 27 human rights, religious, and civil liberties groups strongly urged President Obama to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 if it impedes his ability to close Guantanamo, by restricting the Executive Branch's authority to transfer detainees for repatriation or resettlement in foreign countries or for prosecution in federal criminal court.
  • A Failed Experiment
    Nov 19, 2012
    Following the 9/11 attacks, the United States imprisoned hundreds without trial at Guantánamo and created a new military-commission system there to try terrorism suspects. The system lacked fundamental protections required for fair trials.
  • Election 2012: Rights and Responsibility
    Nov 5, 2012
    The candidates may disagree on some human rights issues, but the next president will face challenges that transcend partisan lines.
  • Majid Shoukat Khan
    Oct 25, 2012
    Majid Shoukat Khan is a Pakistani citizen who lived in the United States for several years.While visiting Pakistan again in March 2003, Khan was arrested by Pakistani agents along with his brother Mohammed and other family members. Khan faced a potential life sentence but on February 29, 2012, pleaded guilty as part of a pre-trial agreement. In exchange for the promise of a reduced sentence, he agreed to cooperate with the prosecution, presumably by providing evidence against other Guantanamo detainees.
  • Why take the risk at Guantanamo?
    Oct 24, 2012
    The ambiguous authority in the Guantanamo courtroom is not surprising given the scant trial record of the post 9/11 military commissions, which have been refashioned in various forms since 2004.
  • Getting Away with Murder
    Oct 18, 2012
    On his second full day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning the use of torture and closing the CIA “black sites” that were the locus of so much abuse. Standing behind him as he signed the order were retired admirals and generals, highly decorated officers who had dedicated their lives to keeping the United States safe.
  • Canada: Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Ex-Child Soldier
    Sep 29, 2012
    The government of Canada should rehabilitate and reintegrate into society former child soldier Omar Khadr, and seek to remedy abuses he suffered during a decade in United States custody.
  • Guantanamo still a blight on US record
    Sep 17, 2012
    The death of Adnan Latif should serve as a wake-up call for the United States to change its tarnished response to 9/11 by closing Guantanamo, even as it grapples with the horrifying attacks on its missions in Libya, Egypt and Yemen.
  • US: Death at Guantanamo Underscores Need to Close Facility
    Sep 11, 2012
    The death of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay on September 8, 2012, underscores the need for the United States government to either charge detainees in civilian court or release them.
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