A judge from the Iraqi town that is the focus of the ongoing Saddam Hussein trial was abducted by gunmen Wednesday. Dujail Judge Walid Ahmed was kidnapped from his car on the highway between Tikrit and Samarra, according to an Interior Ministry source. It is unclear whether the abduction was related to the trial. Last [...]
US Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested Wednesday that Vice President Dick Cheney may be a witness in the government's case against former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , who is being prosecuted in connection to the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity . Fitzgerald believes Cheney's testimony would help the government's case [...]
A high-ranking US Army officer testified Wednesday in the court-martial of Sgt. Santos Cardona, the second of two soldiers accused of using unmuzzled dogs to terrify detainees during interrogations at the Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller , the former commander of military intelligence at Guantanamo Bay , told the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that critical decisions about going to war should be constrained by national and international process that obliges empowering authorities to ask serious questions and requires leaders to demonstrate the necessity of using force… Thought exercise: You’re “The Decider.” Someone asks you whether [...]
A federal jury Wednesday convicted Shahawar Matin Siraj of conspiracy and other charges Wednesday for his role in a failed plot to bomb a New York City subway station in 2004. Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant who first drew authorities' attention for expressing anti-American sentiments after 9/11 , and another suspect, James Elshafay, were arrested in [...]
John Doe I et al. v. Alberto Gonzales et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 24, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Human Rights in Iraq, 1 March-30 April 2006, United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, May 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US Marines involved in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Hadithah last November will face charges and possible courts-martial, according to US Marine Corps Gen. Michael W. Hagee , who said on Wednesday that a criminal investigation was underway. He did not say who will be charged or what they will be charged with. [...]
Former US President Jimmy Carter told a conference of human rights leaders at the The Carter Center in Atlanta Wednesday that immigration was a human rights issue and that he backed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act now advancing through the Senate . In an op-ed that appeared in the Miami Herald and other newspapers earlier [...]
A magistrate in Sierra Leone Wednesday granted bail of $8,000 each to three men charged with inspecting a prohibited area and conspiracy to assist former Liberian president Charles Taylor escape from prison at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , a war crimes tribunal. The suspects were reportedly caught photographing the jail earlier this [...]
