Last week, lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, an alleged “high-value detainee” in the “war on terror,” who was held in secret CIA prisons for four and a half years until his transfer to Guantánamo in September 2006, submitted a letter to the Convening Authority for the military commissions at Guantánamo, Retired Vice Admiral Bruce MacDonald, asking for their client to be charged, after more than ten years in US custody.

Lawyers for two Libyan dissidents and their families are preparing to issue legal proceedings against Jack Straw and a former spy, it was reported.

Al-Qa'ida in the Maghreb is increasingly active, while even Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram is involved

In a few weeks, Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad, Gary McKinnon, Richard O'Dwyer and other UK citizens are facing the real prospect of extradition to the US for alleged crimes committed in the UK for which most have been detained for years without charge or evidence. 

Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen, was kidnapped January 2004 in Macedonia, then tortured and interrogated by U.S. authorities for alleged links to terrorism.

This is Part 34 of the 70-part series. 422 stories have now been told.

Foreign Office loses appeal against release of extracts from phone call that took place a few days before invasion

The bad news from last week's passage of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act is that Americans can still be arrested on US soil and detained indefinitely without trial. 

If there is one case that most completely represents everything that was morally wrong, legally indefensible and pragmatically foolish about President George W. Bush’s detention policies, it is the case of Abu Zubaydah.

BERLIN — A German-Afghan man whose information helped spark a European terrorism warning has been convicted of membership in al-Qaida.

The message came in February 2007: Prisoner 290 was cleared to leave Guantánamo.

(CNN) -- CIA secret interrogation methods -- including detention and harsh questioning of suspected terrorists -- remain off limits to public release, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

(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. 

OTTAWA - Canadian left-wing activists are going international in their bid to pressure Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to bring terrorist Omar Khadr to Canada.

Damning new allegations of the abuse and brutality meted out to the last British resident in Guantanamo have come to light this week.

LOS ANGELES — After lobbying from Muslim and Sikh leaders, the Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to modify its information-gathering program on suspicious activities after the New York Police Department came under fire for spying on local Muslims.

We broadcast from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history.

Two weeks ago, when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other “high-value detainees” were arraigned at Guantánamo, in preparation for their forthcoming trial by military commission, they brought to eight the number of “high-value detainees” tried, put forward for trials or having agreed to a plea deal to avoid a trial and secure a reduced sentence.

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