Former Chadian president Hissene Habre will face trial in Senegal on charges that he committed torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, leaders of the African Union decided at an assembly in Gambia this past weekend. Senegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade , said his country is "best-placed" to try Habre, who has been in [...]
Federal prosecutors in Charlotte charged former US Army soldier Steven Green with murder and rape Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three family members in Mahmudiya in March. US Army Maj. Gen. James Thurman, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, ordered a criminal investigation into the four deaths after two [...]
Bolivian President Evo Morales may be forced to compromise with a special assembly that will rewrite the country's constitution after Morales' Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) apparently failed to gain a full two-thirds majority in an election held Sunday . A television network's survey of actual votes from all polling places indicated that the leftist [...]
Rear Admiral Harry Harris , commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , said in remarks published Sunday that as many as 75 percent of Guantanamo inmates no longer provide the US with useful intelligence. Speaking to TIME magazine before the US Supreme Court ordered the Bush administration to halt military tribunals for [...]
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that some two dozen members of the Palestinian cabinet and legislature from the governing Hamas faction detained by Israeli forces in West Bank raids last week will be prosecuted and put on trial for "participating, supporting terroristic acts against the civilian government." The arrests were made Thursday [...]
Seventeen Cambodian judges and 10 others from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US who will serve on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal were sworn in Monday in a symbolic ceremony at Phnom Penh's Silver Pagoda in the royal palace. The tribunal, which will prosecute former leaders of the [...]
Six Frenchmen who were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay went on trial Monday in Paris, where they stand accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. France freed five of the suspects after their repatriation to France from Guantanamo in July 2004 and March 2005 . The [...]
The UK parliament's Home Affairs Committee has warned that the 28-day limit for police to detain terror suspects without charge, mandated under the Terrorism Act 2006 , may need to be extended. In a report released Monday, the committee also said, however, that in order to increase the 28-day detention limit MPs will have to [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the US Supreme Court's finding in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions applies to [...]
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and several Republican US senators expressed optimism over the weekend that the administration and Congress will be able to strike an agreement on legislation to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in the wake of Thursday's last week's US Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . Gonzales [...]
