Spanish anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon ordered 17 leaders of the Batasuna party to remain in jail Sunday, after Spanish police arrested 23 senior members of the political organization last week. Though no explanation for their arrest was released last week, Garzon said Sunday that the leaders of Batusuna were "not willing to end terrorist violence," [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the Bush administration's repeated insistence that it has not endorsed the torture of prisoners rings hollow in light of newly-disclosed US Department of Justice memos supporting the harshest techniques the CIA has ever used… The April 2004 publication of grotesque photographs of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that instead of fighting over whether or not to release newly-reported US Department of Justice memos supposedly endorsing torture, the Bush administration should simply release the Red Cross's report on actual US interrogations of prisoners held at secret so-called CIA "black [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, says that the apparent willingness of US Department of Justice officials – all the way up to and including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales – to authorize harsh interrogation techniques in support of government policy raises the [...]
Martial law will remain in some regions of Thailand indefinitely, General Winai Phattiyakul said Monday, citing unspecified security concerns in border provinces. Winai said that martial law will be lifted in some provinces, but gave no specifics on when that might occur. Martial law was imposed nationwide after the Thai military seized power from civilian [...]
Blackwater USA private security guards deliberately shot Iraqi civilians during a September shooting incident , a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Sunday after the Iraqi government concluded an investigation into the shooting. The investigation found no evidence that the Blackwater guards had been attacked or provoked, and raised the death toll [...]
The Iraqi government said Sunday it would sue the former head of the country's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) , Judge Radhi al-Radhi, for smuggling official documents, defaming the prime minister and corruption. In testimony Thursday before the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , al-Radhi accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government [...]
Russian police Saturday briefly detained five foreign activists in Nizhny Novgorod on charges of violating the terms of their Russian travel visas. The activists were detained for approximately four and a half hours, and were ordered to pay a $120 fine. The five, including Neil Hicks, a British citizen and a director of the New [...]
The Court of Appeal in Sudan has rejected a request for the release of 25 uncharged members of the opposition Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), alleged to have plotted the overthrow of the government. Sudan's Criminal Procedure Act of 1983 allows for the detention of suspects under investigation for up to two weeks before they must [...]
Twenty-three family members and former associates of late Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet were ordered released on bail Saturday by a three-member panel of an appeals court in Chile. The appeals court upheld a Friday lower court ruling granting the bail. A Chilean judge indicted the individuals – including Pinochet's widow and five children – [...]
