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The last western detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay military base, home to hundreds of suspected terrorists captured by the United States, has been returned to Canada.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.
Amnesty International calls on the US government to end indefinite detentions in Guantanamo, as the prison reaches its 10th anniversary.
Cleared for release in 2007, British resident Shaker Aamer is on hunger strike as lawyers say he was routinely beaten on days his legal team was due to meet him.
A lawyer acting for victims of US drone strikes in Pakistan is preparing fresh legal action against the CIA and tells Channel 4 News Osama bin Laden’s death strengthens the case against the attacks.
Al-Qaeda will launch a “nuclear hellstorm” on the west if Osama bin Laden is captured, according to Wikileaks files detailing the interrogation of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
President Obama announces the resumption of military trials at Guantanamo Bay. Sarah Smith says he’s effectively admitting that he cannot carry through plans to close the camp.
The legal team behind WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange say they fear he could end up at Guantanamo Bay if he is extradited to Sweden to answer sexual assault allegations.
The first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in an American civilian court has been acquitted on all but one of hundreds of terrorism charges.
The Government is set to pay out millions of pounds in compensation to former Guantanamo Bay detainees, following allegations the security services colluded in their torture abroad.
The ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees who will receive millions of pounds in a settlement with the Government will set aside a portion for the last Briton still in the US prison, Channel 4 News understands.
Obama came to power promising to close Guantanamo Bay. In June 2009, Channel 4 News talked to his top security official about the threat of al-Qaida and the controversial detention camp.
Jon Snow
A seminar in central London for law students from 10 countries across the world, including Britain and the United States, will discuss the issue of torture within the context of domestic law. The lecture will be jointly delivered by Professor James Forman, professor of law at Georgetown university, Washington DC, and Helena Kennedy QC (currently…
Jon Snow
So I was out late last night here in Washington. Two parties a night for two nights have taken their toll, but not without reward. At the British embassy bash I run into Obama’s new attorney general, Eric Holder. Tall, aquiline, confident – and extremely personable. We talk Guantanamo, inevitably. He thinks they will be…
Ministers have said former Guantanamo Bay detainees could lose financial settlements paid to them if they have breached legal agreements with the Government. With us now to discuss this is Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, former Security minister in the coalition government, Chris Phillips, once head of national counter-terrorism security for the police and Anna Turley, the…