http://guantanamobile.org/blog/ This weblog digests media coverage of Guantanamo and charts the progress of THE GUANTANOMOBILE PROJECT, a mobile multimedia project on the detentions at Guantanamo. en-us 2006-08-29T12:50:08-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_repatriation_watch.html#002993 Murat Kurnaz was released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on August 24, at the request of German government, Washington Post reported on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Kurnaz was detained in October 2001 and spent more than four years in Guantanamo. Initially,... Repatriation Watch Elena 2006-08-29T12:50:08-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_human_rights_campaign.html#002971 The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has released the first report citing declassified primary accounts from current detainees and their American attorneys to detail torture and inhumane treatment by U.S. officials at Guantánamo Bay prison. According to the CCR, The... The Human Rights Campaign lisalynch 2006-07-12T19:10:53-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_media_speaks.html#002970 A July 12 new analysis piece in the San Francisco Chronicle sees the Pentagon memo concerning Geneva protections for detainees as part of an attempt by the administration to convince Congress not to get involved in the adjutication process at... The Media Speaks lisalynch 2006-07-12T19:02:25-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_media_speaks.html#002969 A July 12 New York Times editorial takes the Bush Administration to task for claiming that the detainees at Guantanamo have always been treated "as if the Geneva Conventions applied" in the groundbreaking July 11 Pentagon memo that stated detainees... The Media Speaks lisalynch 2006-07-12T18:49:35-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_media_speaks.html#002973 A July 10 editorialin the Chicago Tribune argues that the Bush Administration's attempt to find a way to keep the military commissions alive is a waste of time. The Tribune writes: Immediately after the court's decision, Bush and members of... The Media Speaks lisalynch 2006-07-10T19:39:59-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_guantanamo_in_the_courts.html#002972 According to Reuters, the Bush Administration announced today that, following a Supreme Court decision ruling the military commissions at Guantanamo were unconstitutional, it had no intention of bringing detainees to the United States to be tried in American courts. The... Guantanamo In The Courts lisalynch 2006-07-10T19:31:04-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_guantanamo_in_the_courts.html#002974 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration's "Special Military Commissions" to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are illegal. The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld overturns an earlier decision by the U.S.... Guantanamo In The Courts lisalynch 2006-06-29T20:00:22-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_media_speaks.html#002956 A June 20th Washington Post editorial by Op-Ed columnist Eugene Robinson calls for the closure of the base, but also lambasts the administration for barring press from the base in the wake of three detainees suicides. Robinson argues that the... The Media Speaks lisalynch 2006-06-22T09:39:28-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_guantanamo_in_the_courts.html#002955 A June 20thAssociated Press articlenotes that the U.S. military has suspended a pretrial hearing Monday at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base for a Canadian detainee accused of killing a U.S. Green Beret, thus further delaying the start of military tribunals at... Guantanamo In The Courts lisalynch 2006-06-22T09:32:29-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_human_rights_campaign.html#002954 The American Civil Liberties Union has released more than 1,000 pages of documents obtained from the Department of Defense, including reports of suicide attempts by detainees held at Guantánamo. Most of the documents are dated between 2002-2004. According to the... The Human Rights Campaign lisalynch 2006-06-22T09:19:49-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_administration_speaks.html#002952 According to the Jurist, President Bush told reporters after a May 20th US-EU summit meeting that the White House is open to having Guantanamo Bay detainees tried in US courts -- repeating a statement made ten days before in Denmark,... The Administration Speaks lisalynch 2006-06-22T08:59:31-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_the_future_of_guantanamo.html#002953 A June 20 Reuters article discusses the silence of most Arab governments regarding Guantanamo, noting that while the EU has lately been vehement in their demands that the base be closed, no Arab governments have come forward. Rather than seeking... The Future of Guantanamo lisalynch 2006-06-20T09:10:20-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_guantanamo_in_the_courts.html#002945 A June 15 article in USA Today reported that in Bush's comments about Guantanamo the previous day -- as he faced continued international criticism in the wake of three suicides at the base -- the president suggested that he would... Guantanamo In The Courts lisalynch 2006-06-15T12:36:26-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_.html#002944 A new series of images of Camp Delta, taken by Village Voice photographer Emily Witt just before the reporting ban, is is the Voice online edition this week. There's not much new about the photos -- they show interrogation rooms,... lisalynch 2006-06-15T12:29:20-05:00 http://guantanamobile.org/blog/archives/cat_guantanamo_in_the_courts.html#002939 According to Reuters, the British government promised a judge on Wednesday it would consider this week whether to ask Washington to free an Australian prisoner in Guantanamo Bay who won the right to claim British citizenship. David Hicks won the... Guantanamo In The Courts lisalynch 2006-06-14T22:13:37-05:00