Jawad Released Home to Afghanistan
After nearly seven years in U.S. custody, Mohammed Jawad was released and flown home to Afghanistan over the weekend. One of his defense attorneys, Marine Maj. Eric Montalvo, accompanied Jawad as a private citizen on this trip home.
The ACLU represented Jawad in his habeas corpus case in federal court, which [...]
U.S. General Calls for Release of Most Bagram Detainees
This morning, NPR reported that Marine Maj. Gen. Doug Stone has released a 700-page report to military officials about the detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The doozy: in his opinion, 400 of the 600 detainees currently at detention center "can be released, as there is little evidence against them [...]
Accountability for Torture Panel at Netroots Nation
The ACLU was in Pittsburgh last week for Netroots Nation, and National Security Project staff attorney Melissa Goodman joined a panel with the Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) Vince Warren, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Firedoglake’s Marcy Wheeler for a discussion about the need for a special prosecutor to investigate [...]
ACLU to Government: Shed Some Light on Bagram
Today, we sent a letter to the Department of Defense (DOD), asking them to reconsider their refusal to turn over information about the detention facility at Bagram in Afghanistan. The request is connected to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request we filed earlier this year with the Departments of Defense, Justice and State and [...]
Government Asks Supreme Court to Hear Torture Photos Case
Today the Obama Justice Department petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a federal court ruling that they must turn over photos depicting the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.
An appeals court had soundly rejected all of the government’s arguments for withholding [...]
Meanwhile, on a Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay…
Yesterday, White House Homeland Security Chief John Brennan indicated the Obama administration might not meet President Obama’s January 22, 2010, deadline to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay. When asked about the president’s executive order to close the prison within a year, Brennan stated, "I don’t have [...]
Freedom for Jawad?
After nearly seven years of illegal detention and abuse at the hands of the U.S. government, Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad has won his habeas corpus case, which challenged his detention by the U.S. government. In a long-awaited ruling (PDF) yesterday, Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District [...]
Obama Administration Must Abandon Force-Feeding at Gitmo
The medical professionals worked to strap the detainee “into a chair, Velcro his head to a metal restraint, then tether a tube into the man’s stomach through his nose to pump in liquid nourishment twice a day.”
After the Miami Herald wrote about the 30 hunger striking detainees in the Guantánamo Bay detention camps in January, [...]
Tortured Evidence Out in Child Soldier Case
Today we learned that evidence gained through the torture of Mohammed Jawad would not be used against him in his federal court case challenging his unlawful detention. Jawad was a young boy when captured in Afghanistan in 2002. Evidence gained throu…
ACLU Demands OLC Memo Regarding Constitutional Rights in Guantánamo Military Commissions
Today, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding the disclosure of a May 2009 legal memo from the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). The memo reportedly addresses the constitutional rights that Guantánamo …
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