Urge President to reverse his decision to suspend the trial of five detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From Associated Press Three families of firefighters killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 want to meet with President Barack Obama to urge him to reverse his decision to suspend the trial of five detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who admit roles in the terror attacks. In a meeting with r...

They sure do get around these bad apples - Abu Ghraib, Bagram Airbase, Guantanamo Bay. Looks like the Guantanamo boys might be going out with a bang. And a crash. And a wallop.…. Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in”

The family of the last Briton held in Guantanamo Bay, the extra-judicial US interrogation centre on Cuba, have spoken this weekend of their decade of torment as President Barack Obama appears set to perform "the biggest U-turn of his presidency" by keeping the prison open and signing indefinite detention without trial into law.

The White House acknowledged for the first time that it might not be able to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay by January as President Barack Obama promised.

Reuters - (Luke Baker) Exclusive: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama: Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according...

Catch and release indeed: The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama's terrorism czar said Sunday. John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the failed Christmas Day terror a...

The phone rang at work this afternoon, as the gloom of the winter’s afternoon descended on Warsaw. On the other end was a sunny, North American lady who said she worked for the BBC. She had a question, which went exactly like this: “President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay and all rendition camps, one of which was in Poland. Are Poles pleased with Obama for that?” To

BBC: US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as well as all overseas CIA detention centres for terror suspects. Signing the orders, Mr Obama said the US would continue to fight terror, but maintain “our values and our ideals”. Nothing like setting off on the right foot, eh?

The announcement of the "end" of Guantanamo Bay was characteristically Barack Obama - big fanfare, media swoon and mucho kudos from Europe. Look into the details, however, and the most difficult decisions were postponed and the reality amounted to no real change from George W. Bush. By "details", I mean where the 240 or so prisoners will actually go. And by "no real change" from Bus...

Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying the right to trial to hundreds more terror suspects held at a makeshift camp in Afghanistan that human rights lawyers have dubbed “Obama’s Guantanamo”.