Chantal ValeryPresident Barack Obama may have renewed his vow to close the Guantanamo prison this week, but many are sceptical he will really be able to end this controversial chapter of US history."I know the politics are hard. But history will cast a harsh judgment on this aspect of our fight ...

WASHINGTON: - Guantanamo officials have warned detainees at the widely reviled US prison that they will have to be patted down thoroughly each time they meet their lawyers, an attorney said Friday.The alleged threat comes as more than two thirds of the 166 “war on terror” suspects still ...

    Shaker Aamer, 44, is the only Briton being held atGuantanamoBay. He has been detained without charge for more than 11 years and on hunger strike since mid-February – one of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a protest which has brought the camp close to meltdown. Americahas ...

  PETER FOSTER For the men and women involved in running the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, it must have been disconcerting, to say the least, to have heard their Commander-in-Chief share his personal views on their little corner of Cuba quite so bluntly. “Guantanamois not necessary to ...

More Guantanamo prisoners have joined a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention at the US-run military jail, with 97 out of 166 detainees refusing food, officials said Friday.Among the strikers, 19 have been given nasal feeding tubes, and five of those are hospitalized but do not have ...

More prisoners have joined a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention at the US-run Guantanamo military prison, with 92 out of 166 detainees refusing food, a spokesman said Wednesday.Among them, 17 are on feeding tubes and two are hospitalized but do not have "life-threatening ...

David RoseThe last UK prisoner at America’s infamous terror jail camp at Guantanamo Bay is guarding a devastating secret: he witnessed the torture of another detainee in an Afghan interrogation unit which led to the crucial, bogus ‘intelligence’ that sparked Britain and ...

WASHINGTON:  More than half of the 166 detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo military prison have joined a rapidly growing hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention, an official said Sunday.There are 84 inmates who are refusing food, including 16 on feeding tubes, five of whom are ...

KABUL (AFP): The Taliban on Thursday pledged to take revenge on US troops in Afghanistan after guards at Guantanamo prison fired non-lethal rounds at inmates to quell unrest.Guards at the US-run prison in Cuba fired the rounds last Saturday to halt unrest as they relocated inmates into individual ...

Alia Brahimi Since its inception in February, a hunger strike has gained momentum in the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, now involving between 40 and 130 prisoners, out of a population of 166. Only three detainees have ever been convicted of any crime. In fact, more than half of the ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN human rights chief Friday urged all branches of the US Government to work together to close the Guantanamo detention centre, stressing that the indefinite incarceration of detainees is a clear breach of international law.“I am deeply disappointed that the US Government ...

Despite running on a campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, US President Barack Obama has presided over an entrenchment of legal controls and deterioration of conditions at the facility. In his letters, Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer appeals in desperation to his captors ...

MONTREAL - He was a celebrity at Guantanamo, a teenaged inmate who spoke at least four languages, knew the Koran by heart and said he was hungry for knowledge.Toronto-born Omar Khadr, released Saturday from the US prison for terror suspects and transferred back to Canada, looked almost-baby faced ...

MOAZZAM BEGGYou are now the property of the United States and you have no rights” - these were the first words to greet me and other prisoners held in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Ten years on, little has changed there.My life was changed irretrievably on January 31, 2002, when ...

The US has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in return for the Afghan insurgents' agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations in Qatar, the Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.According to sources familiar with the talks in ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be charged on Tuesday by a military tribunal at Guantanamo along with four alleged co-conspirators, the Pentagon said. The suspects will be slapped with at least eight charges, including conspiracy, murder in ...

Let them read the documents. Let them try to tell us after that (as some still do, even now) that the Afghan war was fought well, and fought morally; that Guantnamo was a limited and necessary evil; that there was nothing that amounted to torture; that the prisoners stolen from across the world ...

KAREN GREENBERG Saturday - the two-year anniversary of President Obamas announcement that he would close Guantanamo by January 2010 - was a day of sadness for those of us who follow Guantanamo. Two years ago, on a similarly frigid day, the newly inaugurated president issued three executive orders, ...

REIGNING Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has described the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison as a relaxing, calm and beautiful place. The 22-year-old heaped on the praise during a visit to the detention centre in Cuba, which holds around 240 prisoners and has drawn condemnation from around ...

OTTAWA (AFP) - A sobbing Canadian teenager begs for help as he is interrogated at the US "war on terror" camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the very first video glimpse of any such questioning showed on Tuesday. The video was released by attorneys for terror suspect Omar Khadr, who is shown being ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates reaffirmed Friday his view that the "war on terror" detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed but how to deal with "terrorists" still had to be decided. Gates declined to say what exactly should be done next until he has ...

WASHINGTON - The US urged military interrogators at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison to destroy their handwritten notes to minimize evidence in case they were called to testify in court about potentially cruel treatment of detainees, a military defence lawyer said Sunday. The standard ...

NEW YORK - A US military judge has disqualified a Pentagon general who has been a key figure in Guantanamo war crimes tribunals from playing any role in the first case headed for trial, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The general's disqualification is seen a new blow to the Bush ...