Palau President Johnson Toribiong has said that his country is willing to accept 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , according to a statement provided to the Associated Press Wednesday. A senior US official...
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Palau offers to accept Uighur Guantanamo detainees
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Europe rights commissioner urges countries to welcome Guantanamo detainees
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Guantanamo ex-detainee pleads not guilty to US embassy bombings
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Supreme Court allows Chrysler sale to proceed
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First Circuit rules prison may restrict sexually explicit inmate mail
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US military still holding more than 11,000 Iraqi prisoners
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Turkish domestic violence liability judgment [ECHR]
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Federal judge impeachment articles [US House]
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Chrysler sale stay order [US SC]
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Sexually explicit prison mail ruling [1st Circuit]
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Council of Europe (COE) Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg on Tuesday sent a letter to all member states urging them to welcome certain released Guantanamo Bay detainees. The letter, addressed to...
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to allegations of involvement in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The plea was delivered during his...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday night released an order allowing the sale of Chrysler Group assets to Italian automaker Fiat to proceed. The two-page opinion vacates a temporary stay issued...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts regulation prohibiting prisoners from receiving sexually explicit mail is constitutional. The petitioners challenged the portions of 103 CMR § 481.15 [text,...
The US-led Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq said Tuesday that it is still holding 11,057 Iraqi prisoners in three separate camps throughout the country. The prisoners currently held in the three US camps, Camp Taji,...
Opuz v. Turkey, European Court of Human Rights, June 9, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's...
Resolution Impeaching Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, for high crimes and misdemeanors, US House of Representatives, June 9, 2009 [charging that Kent had "engaged in conduct ... incompatible with...
Indiana State Police Pension Trust, et al. v. Chrysler LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, June 9, 2009 [vacating a temporary stay issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the grounds that the petitioners did not meet their burden of...
Josselyn, et al. v. Tyree, et al., US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Josselyn v...
