Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners seeking to challenge their detentions in the US federal courts argued Monday before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals that no further filings in their cases were necessary and that enough documentation had been provided for the appeals court to decide whether the challenges could be made. Following the US [...]
Review of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques, VADM A.T. Church III, USN, March 7, 2005; released by the ACLU pursuant to a FOIA action, July 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) on Monday issued a statement declaring its opposition to a draft publications law in Egypt , which the group said politicians could use to stifle journalists with the threat of jail. The FAJ asserted that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised two years ago to repeal laws that could result [...]
British Home Secretary John Reid asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to overturn a ruling that terrorism suspects cannot be detained without charge under so-called control orders , arguing that a judgment last week by a High Court judge contained "misunderstandings and errors." Mr. Justice Sullivan ruled that the orders authorizing the electronic monitoring [...]
Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute is set for Wednesday's start of the official legal count of ballots cast in Sunday's disputed presidential election after preliminary results led to the two main candidates each declaring themselves the winner. Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon , of the National Action Party (PAN) said Monday that his 370,000-vote lead is insurmountable [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower court's order that a 29-foot cross honoring Korean War veterans be removed from city-owned property in San Diego. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy , who oversees appeals from the Ninth Circuit, granted without comment the temporary delay requested by the San Diegans for the Mt. Soledad National [...]
Nepal's Maoist communist party announced Monday it is suspending its "People's Courts" that have been running in urban areas of Nepal, including the capital Kathmandu. Maoist supreme commander Prachanda announced the suspension in a statement amidst national and international criticism of the panels that have run parallel to the government's regular courts, are not recognized [...]
Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim , head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , said Monday that he would like the amnesty provision of the proposed national reconciliation plan to also cover insurgents who may have killed US servicemen. Al-Hakim's comments contrast sharply with those made by Iraqi Prime Minister [...]
A Chinese Cabinet official said Monday that a draft law imposing fines on media organizations for covering sudden emergencies without approval from the local government would also apply to international news organizations. It is not clear, however, whether he was expressing his own views or those of the government. The official, Wang Yongqing, the vice [...]
A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The lawyer, Maj. Michael Mori, told the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday that a trial for Hicks had begun in 2004, [...]
