It has been nearly six years since the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo Bay's Camp X-Ray.

After hundreds of detentions and two Supreme Court decisions rejecting the administration's detention policies at Gitmo, the legal status of the detainees there remains unresolved and the fight continues to end unlawful detention and the denial of due process.

The ACLU is one of four organizations that have been granted status as human rights observers at the military commission proceedings. When the tribunals began in 2004, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero and two ACLU international human rights lawyers attended the proceedings and blogged about the experience so Americans could know the truth of Guantánamo.

The ACLU has continued to hold government leadership accountable by filing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents that reveal systemic torture to prisoners held in U.S. custody. So far, more than 100,000 pages of government documents detailing the torture and abuse of detainees.

In addition, the ACLU and Human Rights First have charged that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees, and filed a complaint in federal court in January 2006 on behalf of nine men subjected to torture and abuse under Rumsfeld's command.

In an ACLU podcast, Legal Director Steve Shapiro talks about what is at stake in the legal battle over Guantánamo, detention and the Military Commissions Act. Listen >>

NEWS / BLOG
> ACLU Responds to CIA's Destruction of Harsh Interrogation Tapes (12/6/2007)
> Transcript: Oral Arguments in Boumediene v. Bush (12/5/2007)
> Blog: Avoiding a Pyrrhic Victory for Gitmo Detainees (12/5/2007)
> Avoiding a Pyrrhic Victory for Gitmo Detainees (12/4/2007)
> ACLU to Monitor Guantánamo Military Hearing Wednesday (12/4/2007)
> ACLU to Monitor Guantánamo Military Hearing Wednesday (12/4/2007)
> Blog: Guantánamo: Back to Square One (11/9/2007)
> ACLU to Monitor Guantánamo Military Commission Proceeding Thursday (11/07/2007)
> ACLU Announces Publication of Administration of Torture, a Groundbreaking Account of Prisoner Abuse in US Custody Abroad (10/22/2007)
> Military Commissions Appellate Court Reinstates Unfair Tribunals for Guantánamo Detainees (9/25/2007) more news >>

MULTIMEDIA
> Audio: Oral Arguments in Boumediene v. Bush (12/5/2007)
> Podcast: Jamil Dakwar Recounts the Hearing of Omar Khadr (11/9/2007)
> Audio: ACLU Legal Director Steve Shapiro on the Bush Administration's Unlawful Detention Policy
> Audio/Video: Steve & Sekou - "In Sheeps Clothing"
> Audio: ACLU and PEN American Center: "Dirty Wars"
> Audio/Video: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
> Audio: "The Road to Guantánamo"
> Video: ACLU Sues Jeppesen, Boeing Subsidiary, for Participation in CIA Kidnapping
> Video: Khaled El-Masri After Arguments in His Case
> Audio: Steven Watt & Steven Gray on Ghost Plane
> Audio/Video: Rapper El-P Addresses Torture and Abuse in Latest Video
> Photos: Day of Action listen to more / subscribe >>

OTHER MATERIALS
> Case Profile: Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States
> Letter: Anthony D. Romero to Defense Secretary Robert Gates
> Speech: Romero Calls Guantánamo Policies 'Fundamentally Lawless'
> Report: Conduct Unbecoming: Pitfalls in the President's Military Commissions
Military Commissions: Process and Rules
> Feature: The Military Commissions Act
> Feature: Abuse of Prisoners in U.S. Custody
> Feature: Rendition
> Reports: Human Rights Watch