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Gates bid to shut Guantanamo overruled by Gonzales, Cheney: NYT
New US Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued during his first few weeks in the position that the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay should be shut down and detainees transferred to the US, according to a report in Friday's New York Ti (More) |
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Amnesty urges US to abandon military commission system
Amnesty International urged the US to abandon the military commission system and try Guantanamo Bay detainees in the federal courts in a report released Thursday, just days before the US military is poised to begin military commission proceedings (More) |
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Hicks sedated before being told of new charges: military lawyer
The US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Monday that his client was sedated for 24 hours last month before being told about new charges against him. Maj. Michael Mori said Hicks was given a drug to ease his co (More) |
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Hicks seeks injunction to delay Guantanamo trial
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has filed for an injunction to delay his military trial currently scheduled to start March 20 . Maj. Michael Mori, Hicks' Pentagon-appointed lawyer, said Saturday that Hicks' defense team asked (More) |
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Australia pressed US to modify charges against Hicks: report
High-ranking officials in the Australian government pressured the US government to reduce terror charges against Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , according to a report in The Australian on Tuesday. Attorney General Philip Ruddock an (More) |
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Canadian Guantanamo detainee to boycott trial
Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] told his mother Wednesday in the first phone call with his family since his capture in 2002 that he plans to do whatever he can to avoid appearing in front of his mil (More) |
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Hicks arraignment before Guantanamo military commission set for March 20
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] will be arraigned before a US military commission on March 20, marking his first commission appearance after over five years in US detention. Australian Prime Min (More) |
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US military commissions prosecutor slams Hicks military lawyer for alleged excesses
Chief US military commissions prosecutor Col. Morris Davis (USAF) has criticized the conduct of the US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks , suggesting that Major Michael Mori (USMC) has been playing politics with his cas (More) |
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Hicks alleges Guantanamo abuses in UK citizenship case documents
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has said as part of a court claim for British citizenship that he was shown a photo of a beaten fellow inmate and told that if he did not co-operate with (More) |
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Approved Hicks terrorism charge [OMC]
US v. David Matthew Hicks, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, March, 1, 2007 . Read the full text of the charge sheet . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
US House voted to impeach President Clinton
On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Read the Articles of Impeachment.
