David Remes

Suicide underscores grim conditions at Guantanamo

The suicide of a Guantanamo inmate underscores the grim reality for detainees held there for nearly 11 years without charge or trial, with no end in sight to their imprisonment.
 

'High value' Guantanamo detainee accepts plea deal

Majid Khan, a protege of September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has pleaded guilty at a Guantanamo military tribunal under a deal with US authorities that will require him to testify against other terror suspects.
 

Pakistani to testify against September 11 mastermind

Majid Khan, a protege of September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pleaded guilty at a Guantanamo military tribunal under a deal with US authorities that will require him to testify against his mentor and other terror suspects.
 

Pakistani pleads guilty in key Guantanamo case

Pakistani national Majid Khan pleaded guilty Wednesday at a Guantanamo military tribunal in a landmark case that could speed the trials of September 11 suspects.
 

Guantanamo plea deal 'could speed 9/11 trials'

A plea deal struck between US military prosecutors and a Pakistani detainee at Guantanamo Bay will likely speed the stalled trials of September 11 suspects, experts say.
 

Yemenis at Guantanamo remain in limbo

Now, the election this week of a more conservative, security-minded new US Congress makes it even less likely that the men will be freed in the near future, human rights observers said.
 

US transfers Gitmo prisoner to Yemen

US transfers Guantanamo detainee to Yemen after 8 years in offshore US prison. A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been transferred to his homeland of Yemen, the U.S. Defense Department announced on Tuesday, after a U.S. district court ordered the longtime detainee's release.
 

At Guantanamo, prisoners freer, assaulting less

AP Interview: Commander says more prisoners are sharing meals and recreation, assaults down. More prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are sharing meals and recreation time with fellow inmates ? an easing of conditions that has led to fewer assaults against guards at the U.S. base in Cuba, the new commander said Friday.
 

Haiti earthquake gives Guantanamo new mission

Haiti earthquake gives nearby Guantanamo new mission as closure deadline passes. The Haiti earthquake is giving the American base at Guantanamo Bay a new mission: supplying aid to the devastated island nation and potentially detaining thousands of Haitian migrants captured at sea.
 

Yemeni link to airline plot complicates Gitmo plan

Yemeni links to airliner plot threaten US efforts to empty Guantanamo. The alleged Yemeni roots of the attack on a Detroit-bound airliner threaten to complicate U.S. efforts to empty Guantanamo, where nearly half the remaining detainees are from Yemen.
 

Guantanamo closure uncertain four months from deadline

With just four months left before his self-imposed deadline to close the "war on terror" prison here, US President Barack Obama still faces tough decisions on how to deal with the 226 men left in detention.
 

Yemeni official: Gitmo inmate died of asphyxiation

Yemeni official: Detainee died of asphyxiation in recent apparent suicide at Guantanamo. A Guantanamo detainee whose death has been blamed on suicide apparently died of asphyxiation, a Yemeni official said Saturday.
 

Yemeni official: Gitmo inmate died of asphyxiation

A Guantanamo detainee whose death has been blamed on suicide apparently died of asphyxiation, a Yemeni official said Saturday.
 

Gitmo fatality had been prisoners' representative

Guantanamo detainee who allegedly committed suicide had been prisoners' representative. A Guantanamo Bay detainee who left his cell to meet with military commanders as prisoner representative never returned, and was instead sent to a psychiatric ward where he died five months later, a former detainee recalled.
 

Lawyer: Gitmo prisoner slashed wrist

Attorney says Guantanamo prisoner slashed wrist, hurled blood during prison meeting. A lawyer for a Yemeni held at Guantanamo says the prisoner slashed his wrist and threw the blood during a meeting at the U.S. prison.
 

Gitmo has makeover to reduce hostilities

Attempting to Reduce Assaults on Guards, Guantanamo Provides Classes, Movies. Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Guantanamo detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for men held in isolation 22 hours a day.