Tag: Guantánamo

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U.S. Sends Home Brothers Held for Nearly 20 Years at Guantánamo Bay

U.S. Sends Home Brothers Held for Nearly 20 Years at Guantánamo Bay

The latest release, of two Pakistanis never charged with a crime, reduced the detainee population of the once-sprawling prison complex to 32. www.nyt [...]
Freed Guantánamo Prisoner Has Big Dreams for a New Life in Belize

Freed Guantánamo Prisoner Has Big Dreams for a New Life in Belize

Majid Khan, a “high-value detainee” at Guantánamo Bay, was released last week after two decades of social isolation. www.nytimes.com [...]
Pentagon Lifts Trump-Era Ban on Release of Guantánamo Prisoners’ Art

Pentagon Lifts Trump-Era Ban on Release of Guantánamo Prisoners’ Art

The Trump administration called detainee art U.S. government property and halted most releases. Lawyers never mounted an intellectual property case. [...]
Tortured Guantánamo Detainee Is Freed in Belize

Tortured Guantánamo Detainee Is Freed in Belize

Majid Khan, a Pakistani citizen who attended high school in Maryland, finished his sentence last year. www.nytimes.com [...]
Covid Cases Spread to 9/11 Defendants at Guantánamo Bay

Covid Cases Spread to 9/11 Defendants at Guantánamo Bay

The military has declined to comment on the magnitude of the outbreak at the wartime prison. www.nytimes.com [...]
More Prisoners Contract the Coronavirus at Guantánamo Bay

More Prisoners Contract the Coronavirus at Guantánamo Bay

The military allowed two detainees to meet with lawyers this weekend even as the number of confirmed cases rose to one-third of the prison population. [...]
Coronavirus Outbreak at Guantánamo Bay Halts Legal Meetings

Coronavirus Outbreak at Guantánamo Bay Halts Legal Meetings

Lawyers had reached the base on the first war court flight of 2023. Then the prison canceled this week’s meetings because a former C.I.A. prisoner got [...]
Military Plans New $435 Million Health Facility at Guantánamo Bay

Military Plans New $435 Million Health Facility at Guantánamo Bay

The plan to replace the base hospital envisions a prison still in operation at the base and reduced health care for residents, but no enhanced care fo [...]
Iraqi Prisoner Recovering From Emergency Surgery at Guantánamo

Iraqi Prisoner Recovering From Emergency Surgery at Guantánamo

Doctors have undertaken six surgeries since 2017 on Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who is in his 60s, in a case that shows the challenges of providing health c [...]
Surgeons Rushed to Guantánamo as Prisoner’s Condition Deteriorates

Surgeons Rushed to Guantánamo as Prisoner’s Condition Deteriorates

Lawyers for the prisoner, an Iraqi with spine disease, say it has suddenly gotten worse and that the U.S. naval base cannot provide adequate care. ww [...]
Guantánamo Judge Weighing Hearsay Statements in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case

Guantánamo Judge Weighing Hearsay Statements in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case

About 100 Yemeni witnesses are unavailable for the trial for the 2000 terrorist attack. Now, a military judge must decide how much hearsay testimony t [...]
Libyan Held at Guantánamo Bay Is Approved for Transfer

Libyan Held at Guantánamo Bay Is Approved for Transfer

The move continues the Biden administration’s efforts to reduce the population of the wartime prison and find nations willing to take in the detainees [...]
Guantánamo Bay Prison Mission Is Stuck in a Cycle of Costly Delays

Guantánamo Bay Prison Mission Is Stuck in a Cycle of Costly Delays

The mission has relied on short-term fixes for things like housing and medical care for two decades. With 36 detainees left, the prison will soon rece [...]
As U.S. Seeks to Close Guantánamo, Saudi Center Could Be Option

As U.S. Seeks to Close Guantánamo, Saudi Center Could Be Option

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Nobody was home at the dusty brown campus of the reintegration center for recovering Islamic extremists. The swimming pool was [...]
Guantánamo Prisoner Said He Was Waterboarded; Agents Omitted It From Memo

Guantánamo Prisoner Said He Was Waterboarded; Agents Omitted It From Memo

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A prisoner accused of plotting Al Qaeda’s bombing of the U.S.S. Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later tha [...]
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