The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in the UK said Thursday that there was not enough evidence to try British intelligence agents for alleged complicity in the torture of two detainees. Both cases involve individuals detained by the US with the knowledge of British agents. Neither of the detainees [...]
Chief Defense Counsel for Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals, Colonel J.P. Colwell on Sunday ordered attorneys under his command not to comply with rules requiring military officials to review all legal correspondence between lawyers and the detainees accused of involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks . The rules were issued in December by Navy rear [...]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Thailand (TRCT) has recommended that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra amend the law that punishes anyone who insults the royal family with up to 15 years in prison for each separate crime. The Commission was set up by the Thai cabinet in 2010 to investigate the violence in the country. [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday. In Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals the court will determine whether Congress constitutionally abrogated states’ Eleventh Amendment immunity when it passed the self-care leave provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) . Petitioner Daniel Coleman was terminated from his job at [...]
A court in Senegal on Thursday rejected a Belgian court’s request to extradite Hissene Habre , the former president of Chad, on accusations that he killed and tortured opponents during his regime. Habre served as president of Chad from 1982 to 1990. Belgium alleges that, during that time, Habre was involved in the murder or [...]
The New Jersey Legislature passed an amendment to a bill on Monday that establishes a one-year ban on a natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking . Legislators re-introduced the bill this year after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) conditionally vetoed legislation last June that would have permanently banned fracking in [...]
Prosecutors for the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) arrested the former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI) on Wednesday, alleging crimes against humanity committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 . Ghulam Azam, 89, was taken into custody Wednesday after his preemptive request for bail, based on health and age, was denied by [...]
Twenty-six states submitted a brief to the US Supreme Court Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the expansion of Medicaid for the poor and disabled in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) . The brief argues that PPACA’s expansion of Medicaid is so integral to the law itself that PPACA in its entirety should [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC that the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment bar wrongful termination lawsuits when the employer is a religious group and the employee is one of the organization’s ministers. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) contains a [...]
Wednesday marked the tenth annivesary of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay . On January 11, 2002, 20 detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, imprisoned as the first “enemy combatants” in the War on Terror declared by the US after 9/11 . The 20 men were the first of nearly 800 prisoners to pass through [...]
