Showing posts with label Guantanamo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guantanamo. Show all posts
Saturday, April 30, 2016

GITMO Judge Defers Lifting Order Accommodating Muslim Detainees After Remarks By Top Brass

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As previously reported , early last year a military judge at Guantanamo Bay issued an interim order requiring authorities to stop using fema...
Monday, March 02, 2015

Military Judge Lifts Order Accommodating Religious Concern of GITMO Detainee

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The Miami Herald reported yesterday that a military judge, Navy Capt. J.K. Waits, has lifted his prior restraining order that had barred wo...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

GITMO Inmate Invoking RFRA Wants Only Male Guards During Transfers

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Miami Herald reports that at a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, the defense lawyer for former al Quaida commander Abd al Hadi...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Female GITMO Guards File Discrimination Complaints After Judges Grant Prisoners' Accommodation Requests

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Muslim defendants in two cases before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay have been objecting to the military's assigning female guar...
Thursday, January 08, 2015

Guantanamo Military Judge Orders End To Use of Female Guards For Objecting Muslim Defendants

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AP reports that a military judge at Guantanamo Bay yesterday issued an order that, pending a final decision, authorities should stop using f...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Kerry Asks Vatican For Aid In Relocating Guantanamo Detainees

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Catholic News Service reported that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Rome yesterday, met with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pie...
Friday, October 31, 2014

GITMO Detainee Seeks End To Use of Female Guards In Transporting Him

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On Oct. 16, lawyers for Guantanamo detainee  Abdul Hadi al Iraqi filed an Emergency Motion ( full text, redacted ) with the Military Commis...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Guantanamo Bay Detainees Argue Hobby Lobby Decision Makes RFRA Applicable To Them

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AlJazeera reports on emergency motions filed last week in D.C.'s federal district court on behalf of two Guantanamo Bay detainees for t...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

DC Circuit Dismisses Suit By Former Gitmo Detainees Claiming Disruption of Religious Practices

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In Allaithi v. Rumsfeld , (DC Cir., June 10, 2014), former Guantanamo detainees brought a damage action under the Alien Tort Statute , as we...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

DC Circuit: RFRA Does Not Protect Guantanamo Detainees

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In Aamer v. Obama ,  (DC Cir., Feb. 11, 2014), the D.C. Circuit denied a preliminary injunction to Guantanamo detainees who brought a  habea...