Or alternatively hold down the Ctrl key and scroll up or down with the mouse. Immediately after his election as president in , Barack Obama promised that he would close the camp within one year. He argued that the need to counter terrorism and keep people safe overrode the obligation to respect human rights.
The first detainees were transferred to the prison camp, based in Cuba, on 11 January Of these, only seven have been convicted, including five as a result of pre-trial agreements under which they pleaded guilty in return for the possibility of release from the base.
These men faced trial by 'military commission'. The proceedings did not meet fair trial standards. Of them, 47 have been cleared for transfer, yet still remain behind bars. He was detained in Afghanistan in November where, according to his account, he was working for a Saudi charity.
Shaker Aamer's lawyer maintains that he remained imprisoned for so long because he witnessed US and UK agents torturing men while he was in US detention.
Shaker Aamer has claimed that MI5 officials were in the room when he was being tortured, which highlights the urgent need for an independent, judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in the CIA's programme of torture and rendition.
Bergdahl is Kiyemba v. A habeas corpus petition filed in the D. District Court on behalf of 17 innocent Uighur men. Zalita v. Bush was a petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, a. Abu Al Qassim was conscripted into the Libyan Army when Hamad v. Gates amicus brief. Barre v. Allaithi v. Davliatov v. Obama was a habeas corpus case on behalf of Muhammadi Davliatov, a native of Tajikistan. Ba Odah v. Ghazy v.
Othman v. Hicks v. Rasul v. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld amicus. Hamdan filed his petition for habeas corpus, claiming that the military commission lacked authority to try him since there was no congressional act that authorized them.
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture. Boumediene v. The second landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the men detained at Guantanamo. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld is a case that challenged the arrest and denial of due process to U. Supreme Court. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. Once in office, President Bill Center for Constitutional Rights filed the first major legal challenge to Trump's Guantanamo policy on behalf of men who have been imprisoned without charge or trial, most for nearly 15 years or more.
The court has ordered the government to respond. CCR video. News See more News. It is long past time for this shameful episode in American history to be brought to a close. That administration considered transferring some detainees — most of whom who had been imprisoned for more than a decade without charge or trial — to a prison in the United States. And it would perpetuate, and possibly worsen, the agony of men denied an end to their plight.
Our federal courts routinely handle high-profile terrorism cases.
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