GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Top officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention center on Tuesday defended a raid that resulted in a violent clash with detainees, saying the operation was critical and the handful of injuries on both sides ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge voiced skepticism Friday about new government restrictions on lawyers’ access to detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The restrictions apply to some detainees at the U.S. base in Cuba whose bids to challenge their confinement have ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a new look at the rights of foreign prisoners held for the past decade at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Four years after pronouncing that detainees ...

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NEW YORK CITY — A judge has declined to force an investigation into whether an Army psychologist developed abusive interrogation techniques for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and should be stripped of his license, halting what advocates have called the first court case ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from foreigners seeking their release after nine years of detention at Guantanamo Bay. The court on Monday rejected three separate claims asking the justices ...

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NEW YORK CITY — A bipartisan legal think tank will study U.S. treatment of detainees. The Constitution Project’s new task force is being formed just weeks after the New York conviction ...

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Lawyers representing the federal government in a Guantanamo Bay detainee case have requested three appellate judges in Washington, D.C., to take the unusual legal step of sealing a transcript of an oral argument that was delivered in an open courtroom.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo Bay have, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a victory for the Obama administration.

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