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Jamshid Muhtorov is under arrest, facing material support charges predicated on the claim that he swore allegiance to an Uzbekistan group known as the Islamic Jihad Union, and that he attempted to travel...
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Writing in Salon magazine, Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch declares that "fundamental procedural protections afforded defendants in federal courts simply do not exist in military commissions. And with...
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The D.C. Circuit has batted back Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the new mail search policy at Guantanamo Bay. A per curiam order by a panel consisting of Judges M...
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Here it is--redactions and all. Enjoy!
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The last of the transcripts from the second day of the Al-Nashiri proceedings are available here and here.
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United States v. Mahamud (D.
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Former Guantanamo detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko has also filed a notice of appeal in the D.C. Circuit concerning a December decision by Judge Richard Leon throwing out his civil suit.
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The brief isn't public yet, but it appears to have been filed in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
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As we noted at the end of December, Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari filed a motion for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit, asking the court to consider whether Federal Rule of Evidence 1101(e) applies...
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By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh
The last issue on the agenda is that of the trial schedule. But first, after securing the defense’s clarification that it is not seeking a speedy trial, Judge Pohl and...
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Against the al-Nashiri backdrop, the government has now filed its brief on the merits in United States v. Hamdan (the first post-conviction appeal under the Military Commissions Acts of 2006 and 2009), w...
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By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh