An Iraqi Justice Ministry official responding to a US military statement that the US will eventually close its operation at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and hand the facility back to Iraqi authorities said Friday that the Ministry would use the buildings as a storage location but not as a place to house detainees. Abd [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan of William Mitchell College of Law, former assistant general counsel at the CIA, says that the elaboration of secrecy under the Bush administration endangers the rule of law and is contrary to basic American principles… President Bush proudly admits that, several years ago, he secretly approved taps on some [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, says the recent report by UN Special Rapporteurs condemning the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is based on a false legal premise and comes to flawed conclusions, and that the [...]
Preparations for the establishment of an international tribunal to try those accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and others in a Beirut bombing in February 2005 are almost complete, according to a Lebanese minister meeting UN officials in New York Thursday. Lebanese Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh said, however, that funding details for [...]
Presiding US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Thursday warned prosecutors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui against making any indication to jury members that Moussaoui was obligated to tell FBI agents about his terrorist connections after his arrest in August 2001 for violating immigration laws, less than a month before the September 11 attacks. Brinkema [...]
Letter on force-feeding and restraint of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Dr. David Nicholl and others, The Lancet, March 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Kevin Baum and Ricardo Alvarado : "The Pro Bono Project's (PBP) mission is to provide free quality civil legal services to the poor by engaging volunteer attorneys to provide pro bono legal services. The Pro Bono Project has also expanded services to include some direct legal assistance. Kevin and I along with two Loyola Chicago [...]
The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg announced Thursday that it has received an application from French Muslims asking it to declare the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in French newspapers an infringement of the non-discrimination provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights . The complaint, originally filed in February [...]
US Defense Department officials said Thursday afternoon that reports originating from earlier statements by a military spokesman in Iraq that the US intended to close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison within three months before handing the facility back to the Iraqi government were "premature". Officials told DOD's American Forces Press Service in a story reported on [...]
The Tennessee Senate on Thursday passed a bill to remove from Tennessee constitutional law any guarantees of a woman's right to abortion. The vote was 24-9. Under Tennessee law, both chambers of the General Assembly must approve the change in two separate votes over the next two years before voters have a chance to rule [...]
