(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture delivered to the White House a petition of more than 60,000 signatures asking President Obama to extend a formal apology to Maher Arar. 

Even after a federal court deemed the NDAA unconstitutional, the US House of Representatives refused to exclude indefinite detention provisions from the infamous defense spending bill during a vote on Friday.

A bail hearing for radical cleric Abu Qatada is to be heard at the end of the month, the Judicial Communications Office has said.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, also known as KSM has been in the custody of US law enforcement officials since 2003. 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. has declared a Haqqani network communications official and an alleged Taliban money launderer as global terrorists.

It’s clear what’s happened to Muslims in the West – they’re the new enemies of the state.

Written by Aviva Stahl

Syed Talha Ahsan is the little-known co-defendant of Babar Ahmad. Ahsan has been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and has been in prison without charge in HMP Long Lartin for almost 6 years.

Most people know about the atrocities taking place in Syria today. Few, however, know about the level of past co-operation between the regime and and western governments in rendition and torture.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Defense teams in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order senior U.S. government officials to testify at the U.S. base in Cuba as part of a motion to dismiss charges, a lawyer for one of the defendants said Tuesday.

Can NATO be sued and held accountable for killing civilians as most recently seen in Libya and Afghanistan?