List/Grid Guantanamo & Military Commissions
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Rule of Law campaign mobilizes and amplifies the voices of 9/11 family members who support closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, restoring the rule of law, and ending indefinite detention and other violations of human rights that have become an enduring legacy of the U.S. “War on Terror.” Our goal for this initiative has been to strengthen the reasonable voices of 9/11 family members who support the rule of law in all aspects of dealing with the perpetrators and accused perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. This includes the decision to conduct federal versus military trials, to close Guantanamo, to end indefinite detention, to end the military commissions, and related issues.
Statement of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows to Secretary of Defense Panetta
Dear Secretary Panetta, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows respectfully requests that you telecast the legal proceedings at GB around the world broadly and without restriction. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, along…
PT Statement regarding Pre-Trial Motions at Guantanamo, October 15-19, 2012
Statement from September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Regarding Pre-Trial Motions at Guantanamo, October 15-19, 2012 This week, pre-trial motions will be argued at Guantanamo Naval Base in the case…
Peaceful Tomorrows Statement on Activities of the Military Commission at Guantanamo
May 5, 2012 The United States owes the victims of September 11th and indeed the entire world a legal response to the outrageous criminal acts of 9/11 that is unassailable…
Peaceful Tomorrows Joins Call for Accountability for Torture
PT Endorses Appeal to Spanish Public Encouraging Support For Spanish Courts in Prosecuting U.S. Officials who Authorized Torture
Rights Groups Mark Beginning of a Decade of Wrongful Detentions at Guantánamo and Demand Obama Close Island Prison with Justice
January 11th, 2011 January 11, 2011, Washington, DC — As the prison at Guantánamo enters its 10th year, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, September…
Coalition of groups rallies outside White House for closure of Guantanamo Bay
By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011104335.html A group of 173 human rights activists, each wearing an orange jumpsuit and a black hood and representing the remaining 173 prisoners…
Open Letter to A.G. Holder on 9/11 Trials
November 11th, 2010 Attorney General Holder: We, family members of those who died in the attacks of 9/11, entreat you to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his Guantanamo cohorts in…
Where to Try a Terrorist Suspect
April 17th, 2010 On Sept. 11, 2001, Terry Greene’s older brother Donald was on United Flight 93 that crashed into a Pennsylvania pasture after terrorists hijacked the cockpit. Terry Rockefeller’s…
9/11 Mother Demands Obama Try Terrorist Plotters In Civilian Court
March 31st, 2010 From the Huffington Post: In anticipation of a final announcement as to the trial venue for the 9/11 plotters, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows is warning…
Letter to President Obama Urging Trials in Civilian Courts for 9/11 Defendants
February 18th, 2010 On February 18, September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows sent a letter to President Obama urging him to try the 9/11 defendants in civilian courts. The full…
