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  • Documents

    The Miami Herald's Guantánamo archive (updated 10/31/08)

  • By the numbers

    The prison camps census, war crimes tribunals and more

  • An eight-month probe by McClatchy of U.S. war-on-terror detention policy and practices, from Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay

  • 9/11 trial

    An interactive illustrated Who's Who guide

  • Prison camps

    How the detention center has evolved across six years

  • Pop Culture

    Guantánamo as iconic in the theater, books and music

  • An interactive timeline on detainees and the courts, from 2001

Judge orders release of 5 Guantánamo detainees

 
At left, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington D.C., is deciding the habeas corpus challenge of, right, Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian who was turned over to U.S. troops in Sarajevo and claims he has been wrongly held by the U.S. as an enemy combatant since 2002.

In the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men after concluding the government didn't have the evidence to hold them for nearly seven years in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prison.

  • Gitmo judge tosses out detainee's 2nd confession

    A U.S. military judge has blocked Pentagon prosecutors from using a Guantánamo Bay prisoner's statements to U.S. authorities as trial evidence, saying they were tainted by an earlier confession tortured out of the suspect by Afghan officials.

  • Conservatives call on Bush to free Muslim Uighurs

    At issue is whether a federal judge has the authority to order the transfer to U.S. soil of some prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were unlawfully detained by the U.S. and cannot be sent back to their homeland. Photo Gallery Available

  • Australian police to lift curbs on Gitmo convict

    Australian police said Thursday they will stop restricting the movements and communications of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee, David Hicks, who broke a long media silence to ask authorities to let him "get on with" his life. Photo Gallery Available

  • War court convenes with Osama bin Laden's cook

    A Sudanese captive accused of being Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard sat side-by-side with a human rights attorney from his homeland Wednesday as a team of U.S. lawyers argued for dismissal of his war crimes case. Photo Gallery Available

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