This article tells the story of Sultan Hashim, Saddam's final defense minister who worked for the CIA to overthrow the dictator, was convicted as a war criminal, and sentenced to death. His execution however, has come to a deadlock.

James Jay Carafano of the Heritage Foundation and Gabor Rona of Human Rights First debate the merits of shutting down the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

The Bush administration claims victory after admissions of guilt by two high-profile Guantanamo inmates. But uncertainty lingers about the judicial process and damage to America’s image.

Joseph Lelyveld writes in the New York Review of Books on Iraq and the ‘War on Terror’, reviewing the constitutional issues raised by the first five years of the existence of the military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. He argues that indefinite detention remains a core issue in the debate on human rights in the United States.

The issue of secret wiretapping is back in the news, with the White House making important concessions on its terrorist surveillance program.

David B. Rivkin, a legal expert and author, and Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of NYU’s Center on Law and Security, debate the appropriate venue for prosecuting “enemy combatants.”

Approximately 775 detainees have been held in Guantánamo since January 2002. As of late November 2006, some 345 had been released or transferred to around 26 different countries. The vast majority were never charged and are now at liberty. Some have been detained again. Others have faced harassment by the authorities. Amnesty International campaigned on behalf of some of the men who have been released from Guantánamo; in this report the organization highlights details of some of these cases.

In this summary of concerns Amnesty International argues that the operation of the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay symbolizes the US’s wider disregard of international law in its "war on terror". Amnesty argues that it is only the visible tip of the iceberg of indefinite and secret detentions, renditions and resort to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and says that secrecy surrounding detentions is dangerous for the prisoner, distressing for relatives, and detrimental to the rule of law.

Amnesty International’s summary of concerns that detainees at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have suffered ill-treatment amounting to torture under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. Amnesty alleges that many of those held at Guantánamo have been ill-treated, whether in Afghanistan or elsewhere prior to their transfer to Guantánamo, or during their transfer, or as part of the interrogation process at the base, or as a result of the isolating, indefinite and punitive nature of detention in Guantánamo.

Amnesty International’s proposed procedure for the closure of the detention centre at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Amnesty International’s summary of the names and nationalities of all known detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Amnesty International’s summary of the scale of detentions at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The debate in Washington over the Geneva Conventions, now possibly resolved, has raised important moral as well as legal and political questions about the treatment of detainees in the war on terror.