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Monday 30 November 2020
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in Guantanamo Bay prison camp will go on trial in January 2021.
Obama had tried to shut down the detention centre.
The nationality of the ten inmates are unconfirmed.
Trump has vowed to “load (Guantanamo) up with some bad dudes” .
Once transferred, former inmates are usually freed subject to supervision and undergoing rehabilitation programs.
“This is about closing a chapter in history,” the US President said today.
Attempts to put them on trial in New York for the terrorist attacks backfired.
Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri has been detained at the camp without charge.
One lawyer called the move “Petty and nasty.”
His book is the first written and released by a Guantánamo detainee.
Guantánamo Bay has just marked its thirteen anniversary; its legacy is as shameful as it is horrifying.
Torture survivor Juan Mendez looks back at his harrowing experience, and the challenges facing the global fight against torture, in his role as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Uruguay has agreed to take six former prisoners.
The ruling makes Poland the first EU member state to be held to account for involvement in the CIA’s rendition programme.
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was freed in exchange for the release of five Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
In January 2009, Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the notorious detention centre at Guantánamo Bay. Five years on, detainees remain uncharged and subjected to waterboarding, prolonged isolation and force feeding.
The three men were sent to Slovakia as a ban remains in place on transferring any inmates to the US for any reason.
Three Guantanamo detainees want force-feeding banned as they say it is ‘inhumane’.
Detainees eligible for release from Guantanamo Bay are caught in limbo: the US won’t accept them and foreign countries are reluctant to take in refugees who have been incarcerated with terrorists, writes Scott Fitzsimmons.
Rather than the Koran the most requested book by Camp Seven detainees – some of the most high-value prisoners – is the hit EL James erotic novel.
The more than 100 detainees on hunger strike at the detention facility have said that they do not trust military doctors who engaged in painful force-feeding.
Current two-thirds of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on a hunger strike.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
Obama said there was no evidence to indicate when, who and how chemical weapons were used in Syria as he spoke to the media about Guantanamo Bay and Russian relations earlier today.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
26 low-risk detainees are now refusing food – more than twice the number from a week ago – in protest at conditions.
John Kiriakou told a journalist the name of a colleague who was involved in torturing suspected al-Qaeda members.
Irish peace groups have outlined the “aviation, human rights, and international humanitarian law” which are being violated by the use of the airport by foreign military.
The Irish Anti War Movement is calling for an end to US military flights out of Shannon Airport.
Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators appeared in public for the first time in more than three years today.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could face the death penalty along with four others if convicted.
The Tunisian had spent eight years in the Cuban facility before Italy accepted him into the country two years ago.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
The notorious detention centre has now been open for ten years and, with indefinite military detention now enshrined in US law, hope is fading that it will be closed down as pledged.
The price of keeping a prisoner at the notorious detention centre is more than 30 times the cost of imprisoning a person in the United States mainland.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of five people the US is bringing terrorism and murder charges against under revamped trial processes at Guantanamo Bay.
A man accused of bombing churches and a hotel in Pakistan was working for MI6 at the time the attacks took place.
Our collection of the day’s news, developments and random tidbits.
Documents about the US’s military prison published by the New York Times show how al-Qaeda issued Casio watches.
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IT’S THE LAST day of November, so it’s safe to say the Christmas countdown has well and truly begun.
With everything that has happened in 2020 so far, many people have chosen to bring a bit Christmas cheer into their lives earlier than usual this year, and decorations have been going up in households around the country for a number of weeks now.
But others are still sticking to their usual traditions and waiting until December to put the tree up.
So, today we want to know: When are you putting up your Christmas tree?
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