An Australian judge issued an interim control order Friday, placing restrictions on former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks when he is released from an Australian prison on December 29. Under the terms of the control order, Hicks will not be allowed to leave the country, must report to police three times per week, and will [...]
The Australian Federal Court on Friday local time upheld a decision to reinstate the work visa of Dr. Mohammad Haneef , who was detained by Australian authorities in July in connection with July's attempted UK car bomb terror attacks . Australian Immigration and Citizenship Minister Kevin Andrews revoked Haneef's work visa and placed him under [...]
The White House said Thursday that it will appeal a Monday ruling that held White House visitor logs to be public documents , asking a federal judge not to force the logs' disclosure in the meantime. On Monday, US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth rejected a Bush administration bid to have the logs treated as [...]
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred ruled Wednesday that military commission proceedings against Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can proceed, denying a defense motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. Allred had earlier agreed to hold a hearing to determine whether Hamdan should be considered a prisoner of war under the Third Geneva [...]
The Bush administration is abandoning a plan to give political appointees in the Defense Department a role in the promotion of military lawyers working as members of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday. Critics of the proposed plan said that increased politicization of the promotion process would prevent JAGs from [...]
The legal advisor to the Convening Authority for Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W.Hartmann , Wednesday denied accusations by former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis that he was pressured to hold secret trials and that politics is interfering with Guantanamo prosecutions. In a Los Angeles Times [...]
A judge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday found alleged Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey not guilty of murder in relation to the 1998 Omagh bombing , the worst terrorist attack in Northern Ireland history. Judge Reginald Weir ruled that there was insufficient DNA evidence linking Hoey to the bomb to prove beyond a reasonable [...]
Three former UK residents held at Guantanamo Bay who were released from US custody Wednesday and then detained by UK authorities the same day on their arrival home were released from UK custody Thursday. Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur were arrested and Jordanian Jamil el Banna was detained under the Terrorism Act . [...]
The US Senate passed the Block Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2007 Wednesday, a bill that would impose new economic sanctions and travel restrictions on leaders from Myanmar . The bill is intended to push the military government to restore democratic rule. US Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), one of the sponsors of the [...]
The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution against "defamation of religion," expressing concern about laws that have led to religions discrimination and profiling since Sept. 11. The resolution urges all: States to provide, within their respective legal and constitutional systems, adequate protection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of [...]
