Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge on Wednesday indefinitely delayed the January trial of a young Afghan captive, leaving the future course of justice at the Guantanamo prison camp in the hands of President-elect Barack Obama.
Defendant Mohammed Jawad had been set to go to trial at the Guantanamo [...]
By Andy Worthington
When is a child not a child? Apparently, when he is Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old Canadian who was shot in the back after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar has been in U.S. custody ever since, first at a prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, and for the last six years [...]
by Sarah Amandolare
A military prosecutor who resigned from his position at Guantanamo Bay last month has now accused Pentagon prosecutors of ethical misconduct in the case of Mohammed Jawad.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Army reservist Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld contacted both a Jesuit priest and Jawad’s defense attorney for advice before resigning from his position [...]
by Andy Worthington
As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the US Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed – that he was involved, with American citizen Jose Padilla, in a plot to detonate a “dirty bomb” [...]
Anthony S. Barkow [voluntary consultant, Human Rights First]: “The fair administration of criminal justice requires prosecutors to exercise their power and discretion to do justice and defense lawyers who are zealous and effective. I was in Guantanamo Bay late last month to observe pretrial hearings in the case of United States vs. Mohammed Jawad [HRF [...]
..The petition is also here, I don’t care where you sign, just sign, and please remember it is not INSTEAD of the letter-writing campaign, it is to suppliment it.
By Stephen Soldz
Mohammad Jawad — arrested when he was 16 or 17 on highly questionable charges of throwing a grenade at US troops — [...]
By JOANNE MARINER
“We will continue to bring the world’s most dangerous terrorists to justice,” President George Bush said in 2006, explaining why Congress needed to pass a bill to allow detained terrorist suspects to be prosecuted in military commissions. That same month, the Republican-controlled Congress voted in favor of the legislation that the Administration wanted, [...]
Mohamed Jawad was a minor when he was taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. Major David Frakt has been working very very hard on Mohamed’s behalf. He has put together an action that he believes will work. It will take only a few minutes.
This link contains the talking points for a letter. Please do write! [...]
Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?
By Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director, published in Salon.com
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One of the youngest detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a 23-year-old Afghan named Mohammed Jawad , spent two days in a courtroom here last week [...]
SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist
When the Bush administration put out the word that only guilty verdicts were allowable at the Guantánamo Bay war crimes tribunal, Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann saluted crisply and answered the call.
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http://freedetainees.org/1793
By BENEDICT CAREY
They have closely studied suspects, looking for mental quirks. They have suggested lines of questioning. They have helped decide when a confrontation is too intense, or when to push harder. More than those in the other healing professions, psychologists have played a central role in the military and C.I.A. interrogation of people suspected [...]
A US general described by colleagues as a bully was barred on Thursday from further involvement in the war crimes trial of a young Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo, the second time the legal adviser has been blocked from a case.
The judge also ordered that the attempted murder charges against defendant Mohamed Jawad, now 23, be [...]
A military judge has barred a US general from the second war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.
The judge, Col Steve Henley, ruled that Air Force Brig Gen Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the tribunal, had compromised his objectivity.
Brig Gen Hartmann allegedly “pushed” for Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad to be charged because of the “gripping” details [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAY BASE, Cuba — One general testified about another general at the war court Wednesday, describing a Pentagon official fast-tracking trials here as “abusive, bullying, unprofessional.”
Moreover, in testimony, Army Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, deputy prison camps commander, described the approach employed earlier this year by his counterpart, Air [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Hearings opened Wednesday for two of the youngest detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an observer with Amnesty International said.
Canadian Omar Khadr and Afghan national Mohammed Jawad were both teenagers when they were arrested in Afghanistan and eventually sent to Guantanamo Bay. Their separate hearings began around [...]
Stephen Soldz
Today’s Washington Post brings further information on the Pentagon’s duplicity at Guantanamo. After Guantanamo officials claimed that the “frequent flyer” psychological torture program was shut down, they continued using it for many months, at least. The “frequent flyer” program involves frequent moves from cell to cell for days or weeks on end, [...]
The US military is set to press forward with the trials of at least 20 more detainees at Guantanamo Bay despite military jurors acquitting Osama bin Laden’s former driver of many of the charges he faced.
The Salim Hamdan trial was the first test of controversial military commissions created to try “war on terror” suspects captured [...]
Mohammad Jawad’s military commission hearing last week was unusual for many reasons. Jawad was a minor when he was captured in Afghanistan and now faces life in prison if convicted for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in December 2002. Not only did the pre-trial hearing [...]
-See Mohamad Jawad’s Profile here.
On Feb 7, 2002, President Bush issued an order. The order stated, in pertinent part “I accept the legal conclusion of the Department of Justice and determine that Common Article 3 of Geneva does not apply to either al Qaeda or Taliban detainees.”
“I determine that the Taliban detainees do not qualify [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Bolstered by a U.S. Supreme Court victory, defense attorneys streamed onto this base Monday to consult alleged al Qaeda captives on whether to sue in federal court over their war-on-terror detention.
The lawyers arrived by early-morning charter from Washington, D.C., organized by the Pentagon’s Office of Military [...]
Man Accused of Trying to Kill Troops Was Moved Cell to Cell, 112 Times in 14 Days
A military defense attorney for a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has asked that all charges against his client be dismissed after prosecutors provided him documents that show the detainee was subjected to an abusive technique that had [...]
A teenager captured in Afghanistan and shipped to the U.S. prison remained unknown to the world for five years. Now he’s being tried as an adult.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — When Mohammed Jawad, a 23-year-old Afghan detainee, was summoned to appear before the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay for his arraignment in March, he told his [...]
By ANDY WORTHINGTON
Alone in the civilized world (and, it should be noted, in most other countries regarded as barbaric dictatorships), the US administration has a penchant for ignoring international laws regarding the legal distinctions between adults and children, subjecting teenagers, in Afghanistan and Guantánamo, to brutal detention without charge or trial, and, in the case [...]
Sahr MuhammedAlly [Senior Associate, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First]:
“On March 12, 2008, Mohammed Jawad - an Afghan national who was 16 or 17 years old at the time of his arrest in Kabul in December 2002 - made his first public appearance to the world when he appeared before a military judge in [...]
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