A Guantanamo Bay detainee survived a self-inflicted injury last month when he cut open his throat using a sharpened fingernail during his daily shower, Navy Cmdr. Andrew Haynes said Tuesday. The detainee received stitches after losing a substantial amount of blood in what Haynes believed to be an intentional "self-harm" rather than a true suicide [...]
Decision on Appeal against Provisional Detention Order of Kaing Guek Eav alias "Duch", Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Pre-Trial Chamber, December 3, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Virginia Sloan : "Today, as I observed the oral arguments in Synder v. Louisiana before the United States Supreme Court, I was struck by the fact that James Williams will almost certainly never face a judge, jury, or even a disciplinary panel for his malicious abuse of our criminal justice system. In 1996, Allen Snyder, [...]
Pakistani police acting at the direction of what one official called "higher ups" arrested two American human rights activists in Lahore Tuesday, according to AP. Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry are members of the US-based human rights group Global Exchange and the women's peace group CODEPINK and were protesting emergency rule, the dismissal of the [...]
The sentencing of convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla will be delayed until January, according to US federal court officials cited by AP Tuesday. Sentencing hearings that were due to begin this week were rescheduled due to a death in the family of US District Judge Marcia Cooke . Padilla was convicted in August along with [...]
A Bangladesh court sentenced four university professors Tuesday for participating in anti-government student protests that took place in August. Police inspector Mahbub Siddiqui told AFP that the academics were found guilty of breaking emergency laws banning protests and all gatherings. Each received a two-year jail sentence. All four professors were from Rajshahi University and were [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Snyder v. Louisiana , 06-10119, where it considered whether a prosecutor improperly excluded all black potential jurors from serving on a jury in a murder case because of their race. During the sentencing phase of Allen Snyder's trial, the prosecutor drew comparisons between the proceeding and [...]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said Tuesday that Pennsylvania and several other states will file lawsuits against tobacco company RJ Reynolds for violating an agreement not to use cartoon characters to advertise tobacco products. A press release from Corbett's office said the suits are in response to a multi-page ad for Camel cigarettes in the [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin will attend military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay beginning Wednesday, according to a statement by Scheinin on Tuesday. Scheinin said that the United States invited him to attend hearings as a follow up to an earlier visit to Guantanamo in May. Scheinin expects to observe [...]
Twenty-six ethnic Indians have been charged with attempted murder in connection with anti-discrimination demonstrations in Malaysia last month, a lawyer for the defendants said Tuesday. All 26 suspects pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder during a clash with police at a temple compound outside of Kuala Lumpur. The defendants' lawyer told AP that [...]
