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Australian detainee seeks British citizenship to secure release from Gitmo
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website], arrested in Afghanistan following the September 11th attacks and facing imminent trial by military commission, is seeking dual citizenship in the UK with the hope (More) |
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Australia government welcomes resumption of trial for Gitmo detainee
The Australian government said Wednesday it was pleased with the US decision to resume military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] in light of a US federal appeals court r (More) |
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Trial of Australian Gitmo detainee to start in October
The US Defense Department Tuesday directed that suspended military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] be resumed following a July US appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. Rums (More) |
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US wants military trial for Australian Gitmo detainee
Court documents released Thursday revealed that the US government is arguing that Australian citizen David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] should face a military commission trial following an appellate court ruling from a three judge pan (More) |
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Australia rejects advice proposing domestic trial for Gitmo prisoner Hicks
Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock has again denied that David Hicks , an Australian national facing a US military tribunal on charges he fought for the Taliban, could be tried in Australian courts for the charges he faces. Ruddock Thursday (More) |
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Third prosecutor joined criticism of Guantanamo trials, transferred out
A third US military prosecutor asked for a transfer from the Guantanamo military tribunals in March 2004 after voicing complaints about their fairness, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC previously reported on emails in which (More) |
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Australia still backing US military tribunals after e-mail controversy
Despite newly-uncovered e-mails from former US military prosecutors that characterize the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay as "rigged" and "a fraud", the Australian government is still backing a military trial for detained A (More) |
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Two former prosecutors sharply criticize "rigged" Gitmo tribunals in leaked e-mails
Two former military prosecutors characterized the military tribunals at Guantanamo as "a fraud" and rigged" in e-mails written last year and just obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major Robert Preston wrote to his (More) |
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US pushing ahead with Guantanamo trials despite expected appeals
With a federal appeals court giving the green light earlier this month, the US is looking to quickly restart military tribunals for declared "enemy combatants" being held at Guantanamo . Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that the (More) |
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Hicks lawyers looking to avoid military trial
Despite approval of a military tribunal by the US courts and Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock , lawyers for Australian terror suspect David Hicks [Wikipedia profile, advocacy website] are looking to the US federal courts to get his trial (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
