The US government can detain non-citizens indefinitely on the basis of religion, race or national origin, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that "the executive is free to single out 'nationals of a particular country' and focus enforcement efforts on them" under his interpretation of immigration law . Judge John Gleeson of the US District [...]
The US military has canceled regular visits between detainees at Guantanamo Bay and their lawyers this week after three prisoners committed suicide last weekend, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) , which represents many of the 460 detainees. Government officials told the CCR that no guards are available to supervise attorney-client visits because [...]
Italian prosecutors finished an investigation on Wednesday into the 2005 killing of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari by a US soldier, but have not yet decided if they will charge US Army Specialist Mario Lozano with murder. Calipari was shot to death while driving to the Baghdad airport after securing the release of Italian journalist [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that the new US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation now being drafted should drop sections that would perpetuate unlawful treatment and illegally differentiate between standards of treatment applicable to prisoners of war and non-prisoners of war… Various media reports indicate that [...]
A military lawyer representing Yemeni Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, one of ten Guantanamo Bay detainees awaiting trial before a military commission , filed a motion Wednesday to move al-Bahlul's trial to a Navy base in the United States, claiming that the Guantanamo restrictions make it impossible to hold a fair trial. Army Major Tom Fleener complained [...]
Third Report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the UN Security Council Pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005), Luis Moreno Ocampo, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
American Friends Service Committee, et al v. US Department of Defense . Read the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and others, UK House of Lords, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Luis Moreno Ocampo , chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court , told the UN Security Council Wednesday that his investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur has documented thousands of killings of civilians, large scale massacres, and hundreds of rapes that he anticipates will result in multiple cases rather than a single proceeding . [...]
Secretary General's supplementary report under Article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts, notably by or at the instigation of foreign agencies, Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, June 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's [...]
