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KRWG
December 30, 2017
Pentagon spokesperson Major Ben Sakrisson confirmed that Mattis would not inspect detention facilities or discuss detainee policy. ... According to Human Rights Watch, of the 41 detainees that remain at Guantanamo only 7, Abd-al-Rahim al-Nashri, Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, and five September 11, 2001ÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
December 14, 2017
The move borrows from the playbook of President Barack Obama, who cast restrictions on his transfer authority as encroaching on his power to make ... under certain circumstances, restrictions on the President's authority to transfer detainees would violate constitutional separation-of-powers principles,ÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 13, 2017
A United Nations human rights investigator said Wednesday he has information that a Guantanamo Bay detainee is still being tortured despite the United ... “A society bruised by torture and abuse can heal only when the truth about secret policies and practices is fully disclosed to the public and when fullÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 13, 2017
The Trump administration has withheld the identity of the detainee, known only as John Doe, while it figures out what to do with him. ... MORE, who criticized former President Obama in January for the transfer of a handful of Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia in the waning days of that administration.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 12, 2017
Ben Sakrisson, a Pentagon spokesman for issues related to Guantanamo, said detainee case files will still be reviewed on a periodic basis but the government "is still considering whether or not to transfer detainees." A National Security Council spokeswoman, Tara Rigler, noted that the president has saidÃÂ ...
Just Security
December 5, 2017
One year ago, today, the Obama administration released a 66-page report detailing the legal and policy framework governing the use of military force and ... including targeting, capture and detention, prosecutions in Article III courts and military commissions, treatment of detainees, and transfers to foreignÃÂ ...
Politico
December 5, 2017
The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group was formed in 2009, several months into President Barack Obama's first term as he moved to overhaul U.S. interrogation and detention policies in the aftermath of the Bush-era CIA torture program. The HIG was given a dual mission: Its operational sideÃÂ ...
CBS News
November 30, 2017
Sakrisson said the transfer of artwork outside of the facility has been suspended pending further policy review, but the Pentagon has no intent to claim pieces that have ... Although former President Barack Obama called for shutting down Guantanamo Bay, his efforts met resistance and it stayed open.
HelloGiggles
November 29, 2017
Actually, he's doing something worse than building a border wall: Trump's administration has brought back private prisons for ICE detainees, even though the .... As a matter of long-standing policy, GEO does not take a position on or advocate for or against any immigration policies, such as the basis for an ...
Chicago Tribune
November 29, 2017
"There should be no further releases from Gitmo," he warned when former President Barack Obama's administration transferred them there last year. ... it's a whole encyclopedia," said Abu Aouf, one of the Yemeni detainees, who spoke on the condition that Foreign Policy identify him using a pseudonym.
New York Times
November 18, 2017
The New York Times sent journalists into a contested detention camp in Papua New Guinea to investigate Australia's refugee policy, and the ... With the attention of the world finally on them, the camp's detainees had turned their prison into a protest, braving a lack of water, electricity and food to try to jog ...
Artsy
November 17, 2017
The decision reverses prior policy under the Obama administration, which allowed artwork created by the 41 detainees still held in the controversial military prison to be transported out by their lawyers following an inspection. Thompson said that detainee lawyers have told her the crackdown on artwork is ...
Aljazeera.com
November 15, 2017
Lawyers for a hunger-striking detainee at the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre have told a federal court that their client says his weight has dropped ... Rabbani and other detainees told their lawyers in October the prison's policy for hunger strikers had changed, when, under the instructions of the ...
Just Security
November 14, 2017
How the Trump administration deals with detainees will provide insight into its counterterrorism priorities, especially on the home front. .... As a matter of policy, both the Obama and Bush administrations finally concluded that transferring US citizens or individuals captured in the US to Guantanamo Bay — or ...
The Daily News Online
December 31, 1999
BATAVIA — A U.S. District Court Judge has ruled that Obama-era policies must be followed at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility. ... NYCLU and IRAP suit also alleged detainees were told that the denial motives and apparent conclusion of past policies was due to a broader shift in immigration policy.
Public News Service
August 30, 2017
In January, President Obama ended a policy known as "wet foot, dry foot," ... way because the detainees hadn't yet gone 72 hours without food.
Progress Index
August 30, 2017
Bringing new detainees to Guantanamo would be grave mistake ... a policy that would reverse President Barack Obama's decree calling for the closure of the ... In a welcome development, none of the policies currently underÃÂ ...
The Herald-News
August 29, 2017
Another view: Bringing new detainees to Guantanamo would be a grave mistake ... policy that would reverse President Barack Obama's decree calling for the ... In a welcome development, none of the policies currently underÃÂ ...
Jezebel
August 26, 2017
Arpaio has been accused of placing detainees (whom he called ... Also, Trump has signed the transgender ban nixing the Obama policy toÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
August 26, 2017
... pre-trial detainees in unbearably hot conditions and put prisoners in ... conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the UnitedÃÂ ...
NYCaribNews
August 25, 2017
... said President Trump had been expected to sign a detention policy order three weeks ago. ... In 2009, Obama inherited about 242 detainees and directed hisÃÂ ...
Santa Barbara Independent
August 24, 2017
When fellow detainees opened official letters from deportation officers .... not be construed as an endorsement of all policies or positions adopted ... GEO declined to release salary rates for guards but said an Obama policy issued last year ... Dhungana said GEO guards once told him that one detainee, whoÃÂ ...
Correctional News
August 23, 2017
... administration officials expected to sign a new detention policy three ... as changes may depend on larger counterterrorism policies that are ... Obama's plan to bring several of the detainees to domestic prisons in the U.S. Throughout his presidency, Obama continued to decrease the prison population,ÃÂ ...
ACLU (blog)
August 22, 2017
Arpaio further endeared himself to Trump for his brutal policing policies — something Trump endorsed just last month — and his “investigation”à...
New York Times
August 18, 2017
It would reverse a January 2009 order by President Barack Obama that ... Mr. Obama inherited about 242 detainees and continued that policy,ÃÂ ...
CNN
August 7, 2017
Under President Donald Trump, the policy has shifted. .... the pastor says he's ministering fellow detainees at Adelanto Detention Center.
America Magazine
August 5, 2017
Australia's cruel refugee policy captured in leaked Trump call ... refugee exchange deal brokered during the final days of the Obama administration, ... Detainees can languish in harsh and bleak conditions for years at a time, with ... Under Prime Minister Turnbull, bipartisan support for the policies continues.
PRI
August 3, 2017
An immigration detainee lies in his cell in the segregation wing at the ... Right now, the US immigration bed quota system represents a “mindless policy,” Foster argues. ... The Obama administration tried to phase out for-profit detention ... and a lot of bad things happen to detainees in those circumstances.
Miami Herald
July 28, 2017
But after an unexpected policy change and an end to special treatment ... She met with 16 Cuban detainees, mostly men. ... Many had hoped that incoming President Donald Trump would reverse Obama's directive, but it remains intact. ... Trying to speak with a detainee requires that a message be left withÃÂ ...
Dalles Chronicle
July 25, 2017
We also have a policy that we won't hold anybody who is only being held ... President Barack Obama – and the regional jail housed detainees for ... used to enforce questionable federal immigration policies,” said Williams,ÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
July 19, 2017
There's one group of detainees for whom this limbo is particularly notable: ... slammed the administration for its repatriation and resettlement policies. ... He isn't simply rejecting an Obama policy, as he claims. ... making him the 11th current detainee to be at some stage of military commissions proceedings.
Courthouse News Service
July 12, 2017
ICE Faces Trial on Drawn-Out Death of Former Detainee ... Toward the end of his tenure, Obama attempted to temper that legacy by phasing out private prisons. ... of all immigration detainees are now held in privately run facilities. Overturning his predecessor's policy, President Donald Trump is increasingÃÂ ...
The Hill
July 8, 2017
Obama, having failed in his efforts to close the facility, left Guantanamo with 41 detainees. Five of those detainees were cleared for transfer byÃÂ ...
Jamaica Observer
December 31, 1999
... President Trump had been expected to sign a detention policy order three ... In 2009, Obama inherited about 242 detainees and directed his ... But the US Congress blocked Obama's plan to bring several dozen detaineesÃÂ ...
Arab American News
March 18, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE - Issues affecting the Middle East continued to be brought to light at the 2017 annual general meeting of Amnesty International U.S.
Press TV
March 18, 2017
That is a shift from the policy of former president Barack Obama, which prioritized deportations only of undocumented immigrants convicted of major crimes.
Politico
March 18, 2017
The White House touched off an international incident this week when press secretary Sean Spicer, berating reporters during the briefing on Thursday, cited comments from a Fox News commentator who accused former President Barack Obama of using the ...
Inside NoVA
March 17, 2017
"We've still got the policy in place, we're enforcing it, but it seems to me that it's not going to do a lot of good if the feds just continue to release these criminals back into the community," Stewart said at the Jan. 24 meeting.
Deutsche Welle
March 16, 2017
Amid reports of impending closure and an uncertain resettlement deal with the US, migrants seeking asylum in Australia are stuck in Manus Island's detentionÃÂ ...
Just Security
March 16, 2017
said yesterday as Republicans threatened subpoenas and complained publicly about the lack of evidence to substantiate the Presidents claim that former president Obama wire tapped Trump Tower during the election, Michael D. Shear, Adam Goldman and ...
The Olympian
March 15, 2017
Volunteers for Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest have been busy since controversy arose over the Trump administration's immigration policies - and not just with released detainees. In the anxiety after the election, requests for the ...
Boing Boing
March 11, 2017
The Verge made FOIA requests to ICE for information on conditions in their privately contracted detention centers, and these documents reveal that under Obama, "life inside the facilities can be so dangerous and hostile that numerous detainees have ...
The Verge
March 10, 2017
In dozens of instances at a Georgia facility, detainees were placed in solitary confinement for hunger striking; in one case, an detainee with a mental illness was placed in isolation at the request of ICE for reasons that facility officials writing ...
TRT World
March 10, 2017
According to the Constitution Project "DNI considers reengagement "confirmed" if it is more likely than not - i.e., there is a 51 percent chance - that a former detainee is directly involved in terrorism." The Pentagon did not name all of the detainees ...
Lawfare (blog)
March 8, 2017
And in the wake of the new ban, Nigeria is instructing citizens to avoid any non-urgent travel until Washington clarifies is immigration policy completely, after numerous incidents in which Nigerians have been denied entry into the United States ...
Mediaite
March 8, 2017
Yes, Donald Trump's tweet about Guantanamo detainees this morning was blatantly false. And yes, the torrent of ... He's the former Obama communications staffer, you'll recall, who caused a scandal by giving an interview to New York Times Magazine where ...
Roll Call
March 8, 2017
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price weighed in supporting the House bill, and made his way over to the Senate Tuesday for Republicans' policy lunch. In a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady and Energy and CommerceÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2017
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did something Tuesday he doesn't often do from the briefing room podium: correct the president.
The Hill
March 8, 2017
President Trump early Tuesday incorrectly blamed the Obama administration for releasing 122 "vicious" prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
Washington Examiner
March 8, 2017
The tweet is another shot in Trump's mostly-one-sided war of words with Obama. During the weekend, Trump accused the former president of having his phones tapped at Trump Tower just before the election, although he presented no evidence for that claim.
