Guantanamo Judge Rules Government Cannot Use Confession Obtained Through Torture in 9/11 Capital Case | Death Penalty Information Center

Guantanamo Judge Rules Government Cannot Use Confession Obtained Through Torture in 9/11 Capital Case | Death Penalty Information Center

On April 11, 2025, Judge Colonel Matthew McCall ruled that con­fes­sions elicit­ed from Ammar al-Baluchi, accused of con­spir­ing in the September 11th ter­ror­ism attacks, were the result of tor­ture car­ried out by the CIA and as a result can­not be used against Mr. al-Baluchi in any legal pro­ceed­ing. According to Col. McCall, Mr. al-Baluchi invol­un­tar­i­ly incrim­i­nat­ed him­self in 2007 after exten­sive ​“psy­cho­log­i­cal con­di­tion­i…

Evidence Extracted Through Torture of 9/11 Defendant is Inadmissible

Military Judge Matthew McCall ruled last week that the CIA’s torture of September 11 defendant Ammar al-Baluchi rendered his confessions as inadmissible.  The prosecution failed to prove by a preponderance of evidence that his statements were voluntary and were not obtained by torture.  The statements were made in January 2007, four months after he was transferred from secret overseas CIA locations where he was abused and held in isolation for m…