Guantanamo and habeas corpus

On April 20, unnoticed by any media outlet whatsoever, a Libyan prisoner at Guantánamo, Omar Mohammed Khalifh (also identified as Omar Abu Bakr) lost his habeas corpus petition. I learned about the ruling through a “Guantánamo Habeas Scorecard” maintained by the Center for Constitutional Rights, but although Judge James Robertson’s unclassified opinion is not yet […]

Note: This article is the last of eight articles published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here, here, here, here and here), which I extended to become “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight.” This project also includes an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, […]

Note: This article is one of the last two articles published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here, here, here and here), which I extended to become “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight.” This project also includes an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, […]

Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here, here and here), which has now been extended as “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight.” This project also includes an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judges’ unclassified opinions, and more). […]

On our 13th outing, the ever-indignant Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio and I discussed my “Guantánamo Habeas Week” project (now expanded as “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight”), in which I put together an interactive list of the 47 cases decided in the last 19 months (34 of which have been won by the prisoners), since the Supreme […]

Please support my work! Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here and here), which also features an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judges’ unclassified opinions, and more). On February 24, as I reported in […]

POSTSCRIPT: I’ve finally managed to post the article mentioned below, “Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture.” This is part of my ongoing “Guantánamo Habeas Week” project, but it’s now more like “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight,” as I still have articles to write about five more opinions, but lost most of today to […]

On Tuesday I was delighted to talk once more to Peter B. Collins, the independent progressive radio host whose podcasts, uninterrupted by ad breaks, provide a great opportunity to discuss serious issues without interruption. The interview is available here — and as an MP3 here. I met Peter on my trip to the US last November […]

Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here), which also features an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judges’ unclassified opinions, and more). Despite the Bush administration’s fearsome rhetoric regarding Guantánamo — that it contained “the worst of the worst” terrorists, who, […]

Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here), which also features an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judges’ unclassified opinions, and more). On March 25, as I explained in a recent article, “Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the […]