This is the seventh part of an exclusive nine-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.

Exclusive coverage of the Aafia Siddiqui trial for Cageprisoners

An in-depth analysis from an eye-witness account of the sentencing of Aafia Siddiqui

The Obama administration, fresh off a victory in persuading federal judges to dismiss a torture case for fear of revealing state secrets, is divided over using similar tactics to try to block a lawsuit over government efforts to kill an American citizen accused of ties to Al Qaeda.

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies strongly condemns the Yemeni army's shelling in the Lawdar district in the Abyan province, Southern Yemen, which has severely harmed the civilian population located there.

This is the fifth part of an exclusive eight-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by five victims of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program against Jeppesen Dataplan, a unit of Boeing. The six-five ruling adopts as a rationale the anti-democratic “state secrets” doctrine advocated by the Obama administration.

Andy Worthington responds to the bleak news of Aafia Siddiqui's monstrous 86-year prison sentence in New York.

As I think of the sentence of our sister Aafia Siddiqui and indeed all the other prisoners, so many of them are people who lived their lives for the sake of Allah alone and were amongst the best of us, and thus do the promises of Allah come true.

New stories - including Shaker Aamer - added to the eight-part series telling the stories of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo.

This is the fourth part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.

America should do the right thing now and repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui with immediate effect. And the Pakistan leadership should also exert real pressure to bring back the Daughter of Pakistan.

Kenyan Muslims vowed on Friday to hold weeks of protests against what they call arbitrary arrests, illegal deportation, torture and harassment in the east African nation.

The government is asking an appeals court to throw out a judge's order to release a Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of recruiting Sept. 11 hijackers.

This is the third part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.

Two prominent human rights workers, one of them a lawyer, were arrested this week in Uganda as part of a US-sponsored local 'security response' to bombings in Kampala over the summer.