JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that lawyers who provide free legal representation for poor and/or unpopular clients – including detainees at Guantanamo Bay – should be thanked for their efforts, not shunned or sanctioned at the behest of government officials… Charles Stimson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of [...]
World Report 2007, Human Rights Watch, January 11, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, who faces genocide charges in connection with the deaths of some 1.7 million people in Cambodia's notorious "killing fields" in the 1970s, denied in an interview published in the Phnom Penh Post Friday that Cambodia's communist regime committed genocide in the 1970s, saying the regime had no reason to [...]
David Cynamon : "The Bush Administration has reached a new low in its contempt for the law as it applies to Guantanamo. Yesterday, in an interview on Federal News Radio , Cully Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Detainee Affairs, listed a number of the law firms, including ours, who are representing detainees, and [...]
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson has set off a firestorm of protest by publicly questioning the propriety of some of the country's top law firms representing Guantanamo Bay detainees. In an interview on Federal News Radio Thursday on the fifth anniversary of the US military prison, Stimson predicted [...]
Three US Justice Department agencies – the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) , the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI – are freezing or slowing recruitment efforts largely as a result of a lack of increased funding from Congress' failure to approve requested 2007 budget increases for the Justice Department. The [...]
The US Supreme Court Friday granted certiorari in four cases , including one that will determine if tobacco companies are protected from judgments in state courts on the grounds that cigarettes are federally regulated. The appeal, Watson v. Philip Morris, Cos. (05-1284) , was filed by two Arkansas women who found their state court case [...]
Germany’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, announced Friday that it will not hear the appeal of the 15-year sentence of convicted September 11 conspirator Mounir al-Motassadeq . Moroccan-born Motassadeq has another appeal to German appellate courts filed, but it is unknown when it will be considered. Lawyers for Motassadeq have also said [...]
Spanish police arrested former Argentine President Isabel Peron on Friday for her alleged involvement in the disappearance of political opponent Hector Aldo Fagetti Gallego in 1976. Argentine Federal Judge Raul Acosta issued the order for her arrest on Thursday. An anonymous source within the judge's chambers told AP that Peron, who has lived in Spain [...]
Bryan Wagner, the private investigator involved in the Hewlett-Packard corporate spying scandal pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Wagner was accused of using used the social security number of a targeted reporter to obtain the reporter's telephone records, which Wagner provided to other co-conspirators. The charges carry a possible [...]
