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Vail Daily News
February 20, 2017
The legal case remains very much alive, said Tom Wilner, a Washington, D.C., attorney who heads the residents' legal committee. Wilner went to court with the federal government when he represented 11 Kuwaiti prisoners held in the Guantanamo Bay detention center at the U.S. Navy base in easternÃÂ ...
Essence.com
January 18, 2017
Tom Wilner, a Washington lawyer who helped secure the right of detainees to challenge their detention, hopes Trump will take a fresh look at the situation. “I think if he looks at the facts objectively he will really see that Guantanamo really is a bad deal for America,” Wilner said. “There's no benefit to it,ÃÂ ...
WTOP
January 17, 2017
Tom Wilner, a Washington lawyer who helped secure the right of detainees to challenge their detention, hopes Trump will take a fresh look at the situation. “I think if he looks at the facts objectively he will really see that Guantanamo really is a bad deal for America,” Wilner said. “There's no benefit to it,ÃÂ ...
Al Jazeera America
January 8, 2016
In a 2004 landmark ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the prisoners' favor, finding that “foreign enemy combatants” imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay had the right to challenge their detention in court. Tom Wilner, who represented the Kuwaitis in their court petition at the time, said he wasÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
December 30, 2015
"The president knows that Guantanamo is wrong, legally and morally," says Wells Dixon, senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has .... Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Bogucki, a longtime military prosecutor who spent eight years as a military-commissions defense lawyer before retiring in 2015.
CNN
December 11, 2014
The abuses asserted by Naji were also suffered by other detainees at Guantanamo, said Tom Wilner, an attorney who has represented Guantanamo detainees in two cases that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. "Cold cells, uncomfortable positions, beating them up, making them pee in their pants, theÃÂ ...
Vail Daily News
February 20, 2017
The legal case remains very much alive, said Tom Wilner, a Washington, D.C., attorney who heads the residents' legal committee. Wilner went to court with the federal government when he represented 11 Kuwaiti prisoners held in the Guantanamo Bay detention center at the U.S. Navy base in easternÃÂ ...
WTOP
January 17, 2017
Tom Wilner, a Washington lawyer who helped secure the right of detainees to challenge their detention, hopes Trump will take a fresh look at the situation. “I think if he looks at the facts objectively he will really see that Guantanamo really is a bad deal for America,” Wilner said. “There's no benefit to it,ÃÂ ...
Al Jazeera America
January 8, 2016
In a 2004 landmark ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the prisoners' favor, finding that “foreign enemy combatants” imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay had the right to challenge their detention in court. Tom Wilner, who represented the Kuwaitis in their court petition at the time, said he wasÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
December 30, 2015
"The president knows that Guantanamo is wrong, legally and morally," says Wells Dixon, senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has .... Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Bogucki, a longtime military prosecutor who spent eight years as a military-commissions defense lawyer before retiring in 2015.
CNN
December 11, 2014
The abuses asserted by Naji were also suffered by other detainees at Guantanamo, said Tom Wilner, an attorney who has represented Guantanamo detainees in two cases that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. "Cold cells, uncomfortable positions, beating them up, making them pee in their pants, theÃÂ ...
CBS News
February 11, 2006
A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay said the U.S. military has taken aggressive new steps to end a hunger strike, from force-feeding detainees in a restraining chair to confiscating their blankets, according to notes released by his lawyer Thursday. Fawzi al-Odah, a Kuwaiti who was interviewed by his attorneyÃÂ ...
BBC News
October 28, 2005
A Kuwaiti detainee on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay wants a judge to order the removal of his feeding tube so he can be allowed to die, his lawyer says. Fawzi al-Odah is ready to die "out of desperation" at his detention without charge, said his lawyer Tom Wilner. Mr al-Odah is one of about 26ÃÂ ...
Vail Daily News
February 20, 2017
Attorney Tom Wilner heads Cordillera's legal committee, and says the ... held in the Guantanamo Bay detention center at the U.S. Navy base inÃÂ ...
Essence.com
January 18, 2017
The White House said Tuesday that the Guantanamo Bay detention center ... Tom Wilner, a Washington lawyer who helped secure the right ofÃÂ ...
Al Jazeera America
January 8, 2016
In total, 12 Kuwaiti prisoners have been held at Guantanamo. ... Tom Wilner, who represented the Kuwaitis in their court petition at the time,ÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
December 30, 2015
It takes three hours and 20 minutes to fly to Guantanamo via military charter .... Qaeda Gitmo where they gave you an Al Qaeda lawyer to represent you. ...... it's absolutely bullshit," says Tom Wilner, the attorney who was leadÃÂ ...
CNN
December 11, 2014
The abuses asserted by Naji were also suffered by other detainees at Guantanamo, said Tom Wilner, an attorney who has representedÃÂ ...
Al Jazeera America
November 5, 2014
Photo of Fawzi al-Odah, 36, is shown in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval ... Tom Wilner, a lawyer who represented al-Odah and al-Kandari duringÃÂ ...
Forward
September 23, 2009
David Remes, a Washington attorney who left a major corporate law ... Speaking with their clients means traveling to Guantanamo ... One of the attorneys, Tom Wilner, said he was told by two of his ... Several Jewish attorneys also invoke the story of a detainee who asked his lawyer whether he was Jewish.
Vail Daily News
February 20, 2017
The legal case remains very much alive, said Tom Wilner, a Washington, D.C., attorney who heads the residents' legal committee.
The Herald
January 17, 2017
The White House said Tuesday that the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba will still be open when President Barack Obama leaves office, conceding that a core campaign promise will go unfulfilled.
Yahoo News
January 17, 2017
Tom Wilner, a Washington lawyer who helped secure the right of detainees to challenge their detention, hopes Trump will take a fresh look at the situation.
Shadowproof (blog)
November 16, 2016
So, back in January 2012, when it was the tenth anniversary of the opening of the prison, I setup a campaign and website called "Close Guantanamo" with the attorney Tom Wilner, who represented the Guantanamo prisoners in their Supreme Court cases inÃÂ ...
Rolling Stone Australia
March 25, 2016
"The president knows that Guantanamo is wrong, legally and morally," says Wells Dixon, senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has represented clients at Gitmo since 2005.
Sputnik International
February 23, 2016
"I looked into this with my colleague Tom Wilner, the US attorney that represented the [Guantanamo] prisoners in their habeas [corpus] cases in the Supreme Court," Worthington told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Morning Star Online
January 21, 2016
The campaign, including former detainee Shaker Aamer - who was released in October after 14 years in the camp without charge or trial - We Stand With Shaker campaign co-founder Andy Worthington and US lawyer Tom Wilner, is demanding that the USÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 11, 2016
... might be forced to use an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, also known as Gitmo, despite the risk of setting a dangerous precedent, Close Guantanamo Co-founder and former detainee attorney Tom Wilner told SputnikÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
December 30, 2015
"Imagine if you'd been picked up by Al Qaeda, taken to a secret Al Qaeda prison and kept there incommunicado for six months, then flown to the other side of the world to an Al Qaeda Gitmo where they gave you an Al Qaeda lawyer to represent you. Think ...
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