U.S. President Barack Obama signs orders to close Guantanamo Bay
U.S. President Barack Obama signs executive orders to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention facility, on his desk in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington January 22, 2009. Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and a group of retired military officers attended the ceremony. (UPI Photo/Matthew Cavanugh/Pool)
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say they have released six Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees from the prison camp, transferring them to other countries.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The two U.S. senators from Kansas say they don't want terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be transferred to the Fort Leavenworth U.S. Army base.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Some nations are expressing wariness about U.S. requests for them to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, diplomatic leaders said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. government was properly holding two detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, a federal judge in Washington ruled.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Preparations are under way to transfer three Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees to Bosnia to comply with a court order based on a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned order Monday, told a lower court to reconsider torture and religious bias claims by former Guantanamo prisoners.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, faces trial this week alongside four co-defendants, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush will leave a decision to shut the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp to his successor, current and former officials say.
LONDON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- British judges say Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed will receive U.S. documents that may support his claim he was tortured into a false confession.
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush will decide soon whether to close Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a prison for terrorism suspects, administration officials said.
