The Washington D.C. Jail – where dozens of Capitol rioters are housed before their trials – is like ‘Guantanamo Bay’, a lawyer representing one of the protestors told DailyMail.com. The suspects are held in solitary confinement in cells the ‘size of a walk-in closets’ for up 24 hours a day and treated like ‘domestic terrorists’ by jail guards after... 

A lawyer for whistleblower Julian Assange has confirmed that he has been arrested partly in relation to a request for extradition from the United States according to RT. Writing on Twitter, Jen Robinson said Assange’s arrest in London was “not just for breach of bail conditions but also in relation to a US extradition request.” In a further tweet, Robinson said the US warrant “was... 

The Obama administration announced this week their plan to release 22 top Gitmo detainees. The list includes an accused senior al Qaeda bomb-maker, the terror group’s top financial manager, and two intended 9/11 hijackers. Obama told Yahoo in December 2015 that “only a handful” of Gitmo detainees has returned to a life of terrorism. The actual number is closer to 196… So he was only off by... 

This has nothing to do with America’s national security, it’s all about Obama. Closing Gitmo was one of his campaign promises to his base, so he feels like he has to deliver. There’s also a certain element of this which has do with tying Trump’s hands before he even takes office. The Wall Street Journal reports: The Midnight Push to Empty Out Guantanamo With less than a month remaining in... 

Barack Obama announced in February his plan to close Guantanamo Bay prison. Obama told Yahoo in December that “only a handful” of Gitmo detainees has returned to a life of terrorism. The actual number is closer to 196… So he was only off by 191. Former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani, is now an al-Qaeda leader in Yemen. Former Gitmo detainee Ibrahim... 

President Barack Obama is expected to submit a plan to Congress outlining steps to close Guantanamo Bay. His long-awaited blueprint reportedly does not name specific locations that could replace the US prison in Cuba, however. The administration is going to submit the Pentagon-drafted plan on Tuesday, meeting a congressionally-mandated February 23 deadline. Pushing to close the US prison in Cuba by... 

President Barack Obama has signed the Pentagon funding bill giving $800 million in aid to both “moderate rebels” in Syria and the Kiev regime. Obama also vowed to work around provisions blocking the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2015 on the eve of Thanksgiving, a four-day holiday for most Americans. He previously vetoed... 

Rioting illegal migrants housed at an army base on the island of Cyprus are demanding Britain take them in immediately. Police were called in to quell the disturbance at the RAF Dhekelia base. The migrants trashed taxpayer funded living quarters and burned tents. Many say they are no different than detainees at Guantanamo Bay. “Those staying there have access to three meals a day, shelter, privacy... 

John McCain and Lindsey Graham meeting Abdelhakim Belhadj in September 2012. Imagine if a radical right-winger met with the leader of ISIS and then threatened to use military force to overthrow the U.S. government. That’s what Lindsey Graham has done, yet instead of languishing in Guantanamo Bay, he’s in the Senate. During a speech in Concord, New Hampshire, Graham said he would use the force of... 

Ravil Mingazov ​A delegation of Russia’s high-ranking diplomats and representatives of the judicial system has in an unprecedented move visited the Guantanamo Bay prison, as Moscow has stepped up efforts to secure release of the only Russian national there. The Russian VIP visitors were toured around the facility, where they spent several hours Friday, speaking to senior representatives of the... 

After years of being held at the US Naval Base in Cuba without trial, Ibrahim Idris, one of two Sudanese detainees released on Thursday, said US prison officials had “systematically tortured” him in the course of his 11-year imprisonment at Gitmo. Idris, who has been described by US officials as mentally ill, delivered his comments in a news conference in Khartoum, just hours after returning... 

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a law barring state cooperation with any attempt by the federal government to indefinitely detain people. The legislation targets the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Brown signed into law AB351, which goes beyond any other state in rejecting federal indefinite detention power, according to the Tenth Amendment Center. The law reads, in part,... 

Shock video out of Georgia shows police strapping down citizens accused of drunk driving before using a needle forcibly draw blood as the victim screams, “what country is this?” The policy of police obtaining a warrant to draw blood from those merely suspected of being drunk at a DUI checkpoint or a routine traffic stop has been in place for years across many states, but to actually see it in... 

A protester kicks a banner with the face of U.S. President Barack Obama as hundreds rally against his visit in Pretoria. Anti-U.S. protesters have burned posters of U.S. President Barack Obama in the South African city of Johannesburg ahead of his visit to the city on Saturday. Protesters also burned miniature U.S. flags outside the University of Johannesburg Soweto campus, expressing their anger at... 

President Barack Obama announced drastic changes to the United States’ counterterrorism operations Thursday, reforming the rules that guide America’s drone program while also expediting the release of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The president spoke at the National Defense University in Washington, DC Thursday afternoon to discuss those two issues in particular, weighing in on a pair of topics that...