Djamel Ameziane
Djamel's story, by Frida Berrigan, appeared in her column Trapped by Guantanamo in Foreign Policy in Focus, November 19, 2010.
Jon Stewart Comments on President Obama's Continuation of Bush Policies
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People and Power: Guantanamo Forever
From Al Jazeera, May 19, 2010
Guantanamo Detainees' Habeas Corpus Rulings
In June 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled definitively, in Boumediene v. Bush, that Guantánamo detainees are entitled, under the writ of habeas corpus, to challenge their detentions in federal district court.
Andy Worthington has compiled a list of all rulings to date here.
Pre-trial Hearing of 1st Obama Military Commission Tries Child Soldier
The pre-trial hearing for the first Military Tribunal in Obama’s presidency began last week, following the delayed release of the new manual for Military Commissions. The government’s justification for trying Omar Khadr by Military Commission is that, in its view, his alleged murder of a US soldier via a hand grenade was a violation of the law of war. According to Lt. Col. David Frakt, under the Military Commission rules, “A detainee may be convicted of murder in violation of the law of war even if they did not actually violate the law of war.”