Detainees at Guantanamo Bay : NPR
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Detainees Investigations, U.S. Department of Defense
The U.S. Department of Defense offers reports (special reports, independent panel reports, inspector general reports), press briefing transcripts, press releases, and related documents regarding U.S. Department of Defense detention operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, etc.
Open CRS : Congressional Research Reports for the People
Open CRS gives citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain by linking to 14,000+ reports in web collections.
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The Congressional Research Service (of the Library of Congress) writes analyses of public policy issues, especially of legislative proposals, for use by Congressmen. CRS does not provide its reports directly to the public.
Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
Report, dated February 15, 2006, of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, on the human rights situation of the detainees held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
The "Working Group finds "the continuing detention of all persons held at Guantánamo Bay amounts to arbitrary detention in violation of ... the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" and states that "the United States Government should close the Guantánamo Bay detention facilities" and "bring all detainees before an independent and competent tribunal or release them."
Torture FOIA
"The ACLU filed a request on Oct. 7, 2003, under the Freedom of Information Act demanding the release of information about detainees held overseas by the United States." Those records released in response to the FOIA request and lawsuit are posted on this website, along with legal documents related to the continuing lawsuit.
Includes four (formerly) secret U.S. Department of Justice rmemos used by the Bush administration to justify torture.
