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Doctors urge Obama to provide independent medical examiners to Guantanamo detainees
More than 150 doctors, including from the US, have signed an open letter to Barack Obama, urging him to allow Guantánamo detainees access to independent medical examinations and advice. They have backed the plea of 13 hunger strikers, made in a letter to the Guardian last month, who said they…
U.S. hands over two ex-Guantanamo detainees to Mauritania
The United States has handed over two former Guantanamo detainees to their native Mauritania after they were cleared by American courts of suspected terror-related activities, activists and security officials said. The two men — Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz — arrived in Nouakchott on Friday night “after…
Lawyers warn defense secretary of ‘serious threat’ to Guantanamo detainees
Lawyers representing Guantanamo prisoners wrote an open letter to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday to highlight the “mass hunger strike” at the facility. Forty-five lawyers wrote to Hagel to warn of the “serious threat to the health and life of detainees” who are on hunger strike at the…
Guantanamo detainees stage hunger strike after Korans confiscated
Detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are staging a hunger strike to protest the confiscation of personal items, including Korans, in early February, their lawyers and prison officials said Monday. “My client and other men have reported that most of the detainees in Camp 6 are on strike, except…
Supreme Court declines to hear Guantanamo Bay case
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a petition by seven detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who are challenging the legality of their detention. Four years after the top US court cleared the way for such challenges with its decision in Boumediene v Bush, it…
Appeals court makes it easier for gov’t to hold Gitmo detainees
In a decision that will likely make it more difficult for Guantanamo prisoners to win release, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today reversed a lower court’s ruling in the pivotal case of a Yemeni detainee. In a 14-page decision, the appeals court rejected the lower court’s…
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