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50th Detainee to Receive Periodic Review Board Hearing

June 29, 2019

By Molly Wooldridge

Yesterday the Guantanamo Periodic Review Board convened to hear the case of Musab Umar Ali Al-Mudwani, a thirty-six year-old Yemeni national who has…

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Another Detainee No-Show Demonstrates a Defunct PRB Process

June 27, 2019

By Julia McKay

On Tuesday, June 25th, the Periodic Review Board (PRB) held a hearing for Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Bashir Bin Lap (aka Lillie). A…

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Want to help refugees and migrants the administration is treating cruelly? Here’s what you can ask Congress to do immediately.

June 25, 2019

By Jennifer Quigley

There are excellent lists published over the past few days detailing what people can do to help end…

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The Trump Administration’s Migrant Persecution Protocols

June 12, 2019

By Kennji Kizuka

Coauthored with Victoria Rossi

On Thursday, we met Blanca*, who fled homophobic violence in Guatemala with her partner…

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Two PRB Reviews and Two No-Shows as Detainees Continue to Opt Out

May 28, 2019

By Annie Himes

On Tuesday May 21, the Periodic Review Board (PRB) held back-to-back hearings for two Guantanamo detainees: Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi (a.k.a.…

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Congress Pushes Back Against Trump’s Erratic Saudi Friends

May 14, 2019

The new U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, John Abizaid, started work in Riyadh last week. He’s taken on a difficult job, with U.S.-Saudi…

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Parsing Truth from Fiction in President Trump’s Latest Attempt to Restrict Asylum

April 30, 2019

By Kennji Kizuka

Earlier this week President Trump released a memorandum directing the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to impose a…

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Asylum Seekers Barred at the Border Make the Choice to Survive

April 22, 2019

By Kennji Kizuka

In late February, we interviewed *Daniel at the Karnes family detention center in Texas. Daniel had fled…

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