The base's top legal authority has surprisingly dropped charges against a key 9/11 suspect. Was torture the reason?
A military court this week will hear key pre-trial motions, as the legal proceedings begin in the terrorism cases. A look at what could come next
The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he is "kind of hoping" the prisoners facing military trials in connection with the September 11 attacks do not receive the death penalty, which would fulfill their desire to be martyrs.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey arrived Wednesday for his first look at the controversial military prison complex at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The United States will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suspects in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an Air Force general said Monday.
The Pentagon is planning to charge six detainees at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on America and seek the death penalty
A Senate committee will hear allegations that a young U.S. resident was tortured and videotaped
A federal appeals court Friday let stand its ruling giving judges greater power to review government evidence against accused terrorists challenging their imprisonment.
A prisoner held as an "enemy combatant" at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died Sunday of cancer, the U.S. military announced.
The base's top legal authority has surprisingly dropped charges against a key 9/11 suspect. Was torture the reason?
A military court this week will hear key pre-trial motions, as the legal proceedings begin in the terrorism cases. A look at what could come next
The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he is "kind of hoping" the prisoners facing military trials in connection with the September 11 attacks do not receive the death penalty, which would fulfill their desire to be martyrs.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey arrived Wednesday for his first look at the controversial military prison complex at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The United States will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suspects in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an Air Force general said Monday.
The Pentagon is planning to charge six detainees at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on America and seek the death penalty
A Senate committee will hear allegations that a young U.S. resident was tortured and videotaped
A federal appeals court Friday let stand its ruling giving judges greater power to review government evidence against accused terrorists challenging their imprisonment.
A prisoner held as an "enemy combatant" at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died Sunday of cancer, the U.S. military announced.
The Bush administration argued Friday that the CIA's destruction of videotapes that showed the interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects did not violate a court order because the suspects were not at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to appear in court Friday to answer allegations that it defied his demand to preserve evidence that may have included CIA interrogation videos of terrorist suspects in U.S. custody.
The Bush administration is back at the Supreme Court to defend its indefinite detentions of foreign terrorism suspects at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Some men have been held there nearly six years
The U.S. medical establishment appears to have turned a blind eye to the abuse of military medicine at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, doctors from around the world said in a letter published Friday in a prestigious British medical journal.
The Supreme Court refused to block the pending transfer of an accused terrorist held by the U.S. military, despite his fears of being tortured if he is sent back to his home country of Algeria.
Never mind the hearings on detainee rights. The Supreme Court has already stepped in where Congress failed to act
Analysis: A court decision requiring that all evidence on prisoners be disclosed in court was a blow to the Administration. But it could help at the Supreme Court
Democrats want to cut President Bush's budget for Guantanamo Bay prison in half, beating the administration to the punch in shutting down the facility for terror detainees
A military judge has refused a Pentagon request to reconsider his dismissal of charges against a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of killing an American soldier
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday accepted appeals from two men detained for years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Amid reports that the facility will be closed, Bush hard-liners and pragmatists wrestle over its future
The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere
A White House meeting on the future of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility was canceled after the Associated Press reported that administration officials were "nearing a decision" to close the facility.
A White House meeting planned for Friday about the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been canceled after The Associated Press reported the Bush administration was "nearing a decision" to close the center.
The U.S. transferred six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries, including one who now may face abuse in Tunisia for nonviolent political activities
Military judges at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, threw out war crimes charges against an aide to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and against a Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier.
A Saudi Arabian detainee at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died Wednesday of an apparent suicide, the military said in a statement.
In a victory for President Bush, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by suspected terrorists challenging their imprisonment at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Three suspected terrorists connected with the September 11, 2001, attacks have gone before judicial panels charged with determining whether they can be detained indefinitely, the Pentagon said Monday.
Last week, I had the honor of traveling to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to play for our troops and their families stationed in America's oldest continuously functioning overseas base.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is submitting to Congress a manual for trials of detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay that would allow the admission of hearsay evidence and coerced testimony, a Pentagon official told reporters Thursday.
Worldwide protests were held on Thursday to mark the fifth anniversary of the first detainees arriving at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
For the first time, the International Committee of the Red Cross met this week with 14 suspected al Qaeda operatives held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the reputed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, said sources with direct knowledge of the visit.
A dozen or so representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross are headed for our military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and frankly I am concerned for their comfort and possibly even their health. They plan to meet with detainees there, specifically the 14 terrorists who have been held in recent years at secret CIA facilities abroad. After those meetings will the members of the Red Cross delegation have access to showers, baths and possibly a sauna? I hope so.
About 50 Cuban migrants are being detained indefinitely at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to an exile group in Miami.
All detainees in U.S. military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are to be granted all the privileges of the Geneva Conventions, sources have told CNN.
Shafiq Rasul, a British citizen, says he and two friends were on a humanitarian visit to Afghanistan in 2001 when they were taken prisoner and sent to the detention center in the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The suicides of three detainees at Guantanamo Bay has sparked renewed calls for the U.S. prison camp to be closed.
The suicides of three inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has spurred renewed calls for changes at the facility, with one Republican senator urging the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists held there.
Three prisoners at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have hanged themselves in what is being called a "planned event," the U.S. military has said.
The first sign of trouble last week at the U.S. Navy's detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, came when guards found a prisoner unconscious in his cell. Then a second prisoner was discovered frothing at the mouth. Both had swallowed large amounts of an antianxiety drug. Not long after, 10 guards were lured into a medium-security bunkhouse where a detainee was apparently getting ready to hang himself with a bedsheet. In the ensuing melee, prisoners wielded broken fan blades, light fixtures and pieces of metal against riot police, who fired pepper spray and rubber pellets, leaving several lightly injured on both sides. It was the most serious incident since terrorist suspects were first taken to Gitmo after 9/11.
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner staged a fake suicide attempt to draw U.S. troops into a room where they were attacked by other prisoners, military leaders at the camp told reporters Friday.
The United States should close its jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and any secret prisons it may be running, a U.N. panel said Friday.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan denies being a terrorist, and denies fighting against coalition forces in Afghanistan when he was captured there two months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is backing a U.N. report calling for the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed, saying he hoped it would happen "as soon as is possible."
The Justice Department Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to dismiss lawsuits by Guantanamo Bay detainees, arguing a law passed in December takes away the prisoners' right to bring their cases before the court.
Twenty-three detainees on hunger strikes at the prison camp here are being force fed to prevent their deaths, a doctor who works with the prisoners told CNN.
The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees taking part in a hunger strike has swelled to about a quarter of the prison population over the past month, according to Pentagon officials.
It was a quick trip, down and back; seven hours in a military jet, plus all day at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center -- 10 media military analysts, defense writers and think-tankers receiving briefings, visiting assigned personnel and watching interrogations.
Four U.N. human rights experts criticized the U.S. government Thursday for failing to answer a January 2004 request to allow them to visit the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, citing allegations of torture against detainees.
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat apologized Tuesday for remarks comparing the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to methods used by the Nazis, Soviets and other repressive regimes.
Amid calls for the United States' Guantanamo Bay prison camp to be overhauled or even shut down, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended the facility.
Amid continuing calls to simply shut it down, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held the line on Guantanamo.
Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he doesn't believe revelations about the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have become an image problem for the United States and that the facility should not be shut down.
The chief of Amnesty International USA alleged Sunday that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is part of a worldwide network of U.S. jails, some of them secret, where prisoners are mistreated and even killed.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday dismissed as "reprehensible" Amnesty International's characterization of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as "the gulag of our times."
The International Committee of the Red Cross gathered "credible" reports about U.S. personnel at the Guantanamo Bay naval base disrespecting the Quran and raised the issue with the Pentagon several times, a group spokesman said Thursday.
Seven people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in fresh protests in Afghanistan as anger spread over a report about the use of Islam's holy book by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, according to reports.
A federal judge ruled Monday that non-U.S. fighters in American military custody at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can go to U.S. courts and protest their detention.
British police have released without charge four Britons who arrived back in the UK after being held for nearly three years at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Police were due Wednesday to quiz four Britons who arrived back in the UK after being held for nearly three years at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Twenty-three terror suspects tried to kill or harm themselves over nine days in 2003 at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to officials with the U.S. Southern Command.
U.S. authorities say they will release four remaining Britons and an Australian held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds those it suspects of terrorist activities.
A memo from a senior FBI counterterrorism official has outlined three alleged cases of abuse in 2002 that FBI agents had become aware of while serving at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison.
A federal judge in Washington has directly challenged U.S. government lawyers to explain their policies for designating enemy combatants and for the continued detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Four British detainees who spent more than two years in captivity in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before being released, are now suing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials, saying they were tortured.
Military prosecutors agreed to drop an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his defense attorney said Wednesday.
Three British men held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than two years have accused the United States and Britain of humiliating and abusive treatment.
Military officers next week will begin meeting with the more than 600 prisoners being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine the legality of their detentions, Pentagon officials said Friday.
Video of U.S. forces quelling disturbances at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility were shown to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, the office of Sen. Patrick Leahy said.
Review panels will decide on a case-by-case basis whether detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being held legally, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
Two separate releases of prisoners last year were part of a secret prisoner swap that involved the United States, Saudi Arabia and Britain, The New York Times reported Sunday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he is in discussions with the U.S. government over the return of four UK detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba following a key U.S. court decision.
Britain's top legal adviser says U.S. plans for military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees are "unacceptable."
In response to criticism from its own military attorneys, the Pentagon insisted Thursday that interrogation techniques used on al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are "fully consistent with international law."
The International Committee of the Red Cross recently provided the Bush administration with a report outlining its concerns about detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the State Department said Thursday.
Two British Muslim men at the center of a recent Supreme Court case say the U.S. military is deceiving the public about interrogation techniques they claim they were subjected to during their two-year detention at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Two guards at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were disciplined for misuse of force against detainees in 2002 and 2003, according to Col. David McWilliams of the U.S. Southern Command.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the United States expects to release more detainees from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba soon.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this week about whether the 595 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba may challenge their captivity in federal court.
The Pentagon has released 23 Afghans and 3 Pakistani prisoners being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The four British detainees placed in UK custody after returning from the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have now been released, New Scotland Yard says.
Four of five British men released by the U.S. military from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and returned to the UK have been arrested and sent to a London police station.
Five British men detained by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will head home within the next 24 hours, according to UK Home Secretary David Blunkett.
British anti-terrorism police have started an investigation into five Britons to be freed from the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba after being held without trial for two years.
Five of the nine British citizens detained at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba are to be returned to Britain, the UK government says.
The Supreme Court Thursday granted the government's request to keep a terrorism suspect being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from seeing his lawyer, at least until the justices decide the larger legal issue of what rights other "enemy combatants" are afforded.
A prisoner at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is among a handful of people suspected of being the so-called 20th al Qaeda hijacker planned for the September 11 attacks, according to U.S. officials.
Families of British and French prisoners held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay have criticized their governments over the handling of the detainees.
The U.S. military no longer has a Muslim cleric at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ministering to the religious needs of the more than 600 detainees there, and has no plans to provide a new cleric of any faith, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.
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