Detainees

On Tuesday, Biden signed an executive order that makes it easier for administration officials to negotiate the release of Americans held in custody abroad.

The White House disputed a coach's claim that Griner is facing a double standard in her ongoing detainment in Russia.

Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, has been stuck in Russia since she was detained by Russian authorities on February 17 at a Moscow airport.

"As I do everything in my power to get BG home, my heart is overflowing with joy for the Reed family," Cherelle Griner said in a post on Instagram.

Griner has been detained in Russia over allegations that officials at a Moscow airport found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage.

Sunday's detainee count marks the highest in the country in recent days, with 4,366 people arrested across 55 Russian cities.

Though many political detainees were freed Friday evening, some decided to wait until Saturday out of safety fears surrounding being out later in the day.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform called for an investigation into "shocking allegations of medical atrocities" at the ICE detention center.

Only 1.38 percent of all ICE detainees have been tested for coronavirus out of a total nationwide population of 30,307 detainees, according to information released Tuesday.

"I'm in so much pain, I barely have breath in my chest and my throat hurt," one detainee told the Miami Herald. "I'm sorry I'm crying but my bones and my body aches, I feel faint and my fever is burning. Please help me."

Immigration attorneys in El Paso voiced concerns about ICE officials detaining pregnant women, saying they don't receive proper medical care.

Some 2,500 ISIS foreign fighters remain in Kurdish prisons in northeastern Syria, but the Turkish operation may threaten the security of such facilities.

"They are not well. Their bodies are really weak, they can't talk, and they have been hospitalized, back and forth," a relative of two detainees told the Associated Press.

Needing detention space, ICE has used noncompetitive contracts called Intergovernmental Service Agreements to quickly bring beds online. But is the government failing to impose accountability standards on its sprawling immigrant-prison system?

The former vice president also supported President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA director.

The U.S. military's brutal and ineffective interrogation program started at Gitmo, then spread to Abu Ghraib. One man who tried to stop it—and failed—now fears America may torture again.

The U.S. spends $91 million annually on trials at the base, which houses 61 inmates.

The transfer of the 12 Yemeni and three Afghan citizens brings the total number of detainees down to 61 at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

North Korea has previously indicated that wartime laws would mean detainees will not be released on humanitarian grounds.

The two men were the first of a group of about a dozen who are expected to be transferred in coming weeks.

President Obama said the plan to close Guantánamo Bay Prison in Cuba and transfer detainees would save more than $300 million over a decade.

The photographs belong to a larger collection of images taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009.

A new plan to close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is likely to be unveiled in the coming days.

Cori Crider sat in Cuba 14 years ago and imagined what Shaker Aamer would be like. Today, he is finally free.

The Navy decided not to discharge the man, who will be reassigned to a new position in New England.

Pentagon could change policy that punished medical personnel for objecting to the procedure.

Judge orders pictures of detainee abuse be released after a more than decade-long legal battle.

The Obama administration breaks a record for censoring the most government records requested through the Freedom of Information Act.

After the release of the CIA torture report, the Obama administration says, images are worse than words.

The men were flown to Kabul overnight in the first such transfer of its kind to war-torn Afghanistan since 2009.