JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School and panel colleagues at a recent Washburn University School of Law symposium on “The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism” offer their consensus on the appropriate way forward on critical issues in international law and policy that will confront President Barack [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments Monday on whether 17 Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay can be released into the US. In early October, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the release of the detainees , writing that the Constitution prohibits detention [...]
Richard Huffman : "Christian Klar, leader of the notorious Red Army Faction, the leftist terrorist group that waged war on Germany from 1970 through the early 1990s, was released from prison. Klar had been serving time for, among other things, the murder of Germany's top federal prosecutor, Siegfried Buback, who occupied a position roughly equivalent [...]
A Stuttgart court on Monday granted parole for Christian Klar, a leader of the militant Red Army Faction (RAF) , after Klar served 26 years in prison on nine counts of murder and 11 counts of attempted murder. The court found no grounds on which continue to detain him, and Klar will be released in [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the convictions of three men found guilty of involvement in the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The court held that Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali, and Wadih El Hage had received fair trials, and that none [...]
A lawyer for the Dutch government on Monday claimed the statute of limitations bars one survivor and nine widows of victims of a 1947 massacre in Indonesia from seeking compensation. Dutch soldiers allegedly executed more than 400 people in the village of Rawagedeh during the Indonesian War of Independence . In a letter to the [...]
Many convicted felons, including several well-known figures, are seeking clemency from US President George W. Bush before he leaves office, according to a Washington Post report Monday. Among those said to have applied are financier Michael Milken , former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham and former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards . Presidential pardons are granted under [...]
An Iraqi court on Sunday began a new trial for 16 former Saddam Hussein-era officials, including Hussein cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid – better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali" – and former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz . The accused are charged in connection with the killings of protesters who rioted in [...]
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Sunday lifted martial law over the the country's northern province of Pando , more than two months after the sanction was imposed following violent regional protests against the country's proposed new constitution . Under the proposed charter, more of Bolivia's land and energy resource income would go to the country's [...]
US military officials will be unable to detain people without charge under the proposed new Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government, and military officials are now investigating the cases of about 5,000 detainees they consider dangerous in anticipation of the change, according to an AP report Sunday. The new SOFA will also [...]
