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Gitmo inmate who was deemed no threat describes cycle of hunger strikes and force feedings
An inmate detained at Guantanamo for over a decade without charge on Monday gave a graphic account of his participation in a two-month-old hunger strike at the US-run military prison. In an op-ed published in the New York Times entitled “Gitmo Is Killing Me,” Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel said he…
Lawyers of accused 9/11 plotters seek access to prison
Lawyers for five alleged 9/11 plotters urged a military judge Tuesday to allow them two days to visit the super-secure prison and cells where they are being held. The defendants, meanwhile, boycotted proceedings on the second day of hearings at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to prepare for their trial…
Talk of CIA prisons censored at Guantanamo hearing
US authorities censored part of a preliminary hearing Monday at a Guantanamo military tribunal that touched on CIA secret prisons where suspected 9/11 plotters say they were tortured. Reporters watched the proceedings against the five 9/11 suspects at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba behind a thick, sound-proof…
Prisoner 552, Fayez al-Kandari, still waiting for Obama to make good on 2008 promise to close Gitmo
US President Barack Obama begins his second term having failed to honor a promise from his first to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, to the bitter regret of prisoner 552, Fayez al-Kandari. The 34-year-old Kuwaiti, accused by US authorities of being an advisor to slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin…
Last Westerner at Guantanamo ‘returning to Canada’
The last Westerner held in the US prison for terror suspects in Guantanamo is returning to his native Canada, Canadian TV reported on Saturday. Omar Khadr left the prison on Saturday morning on a military plane bound for Canada, CBC said, quoting a military source. It did not say if…
Technical glitch delays 9/11 hearing at Guantanamo
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — The next court appearance of five men charged over the 9/11 attacks has been delayed until Thursday due to an Internet outage, the presiding judge said Tuesday. The preliminary hearings in a US military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had already been…
Lawyers ask for Guantanamo trial to be televised
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Lawyers for the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of the deadly 2000 attack on the USS Cole demanded Thursday that his Guantanamo military tribunal be televised. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s trial at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is the first since the…
UN asked to probe Guantanamo torture of 9/11 chief
Lawyers for self-confessed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed revealed they have asked the UN to investigate their client’s alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay military jail. On the UN’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Mohammed’s defense team revealed they had sent a “Letter of Allegation” to Juan…
Lawyers slam Canada as Guantanamo inmate languishes
MONTREAL — Lawyers for a young Canadian held for 10 years at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday the government has failed to honor a deal with the United States to bring him home. Omar Khadr, who was born in Toronto and became a child soldier for…
Battle over Guantanamo court attire in 9/11 case
WASHINGTON — The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks wanted to wear military-style camouflage clothes to court but prison officials denied the request as inappropriate, documents show. A series of documents and photographs released by the Pentagon this week show that the lawyers for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four…
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