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Later On (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Marcy Wheeler: Ahmed Ghailani’s lawyers have moved to have his indictment dismissed because he was denied a speedy trial. As a reminder, Ghailani is being tried for his involvement in the African embassy bombings, under an indictment first filed in 1998. His lawyers are arguing that the government held and interrogated Ghailani for 57 months (with [...]
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Ahmed Ghailani's lawyers argue that, since he is being tried on an indictment that was pending through the entire period of his detention, he has been deprived of his right to a speedy trial.
zTruth (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... to torture" violated his constitutional rights. In a motion Tuesday, lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani said the U.S. government made a "conscious and deliberate" decision to house him for two years at secret Central Intelligence Agency "black sites" and subject him to so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" in an effort to make him an intelligence...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
[JURIST] Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani have filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him, according to heavily redacted court documents made public Tuesday. Ghailani's lawyers argued that his right to a speedy trial was violated after he spent nearly five years in custody before being brought before a civilian court. The lawyers also argued that...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Citing a long wait for trial, lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee have asked a judge to dismiss charges against him in the deadly 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. The lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani made the arguments in papers filed in US Di...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani, held since 2004 in the 1998 embassy bombings, say his right to a speedy trial was violated.
Riehl World View (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... charges against him in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani made the arguments in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and released Tuesday. They said their client's case raised the question of whether national security can trump an indicted defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial. "We respectfully submit that...
