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Spain lower house votes to limit reach of universal jurisdiction statute
The Spanish Congress of Deputies voted 341-2 Thursday to limit use of the country's universal jurisdiction [AI backgrounder; JURIST news archive] statute to those offenses committed by or against Spaniards, or where the perpetrators are in Spa (More) |
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Guantanamo is symbol of degraded torture convention: UN rights chief
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday that the US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are "high-profile symbols" of a trend toward finding ways to circumvent the UN Convention Against Torture (More) |
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Bagram ex-detainees allege abuse at US facility
Several former detainees held at the US detention facility at Bagram Air Base [JURIST news archive; GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in Afghanistan have alleged abuse while in custody, the BBC reported Wednesday. Interviews conducted over a two-month p (More) |
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Federal judge rules Guantanamo detainee no longer 'enemy combatant'
A federal judge ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee Monday, ruling that Syrian national Abdulrahim Abdul Razak Al Ginco could not be considered a member of a terrorist organization when originally taken into custody due to the "p (More) |
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Al Ginco Guantanamo release ruling [US DC]
Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Ginco v. Barack Obama, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 22, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on released Guantanamo detain (More) |
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The Ghailani Terrorism Case: Military Lawyers in Federal Court?
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that Department of Defense approval of military defense counsel's participation in Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's federal court terrorism case would underline the Department' (More) |
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Portugal agrees to take up to 3 Guantanamo detainees
Portugal will accept two or three Guantanamo detainees already cleared for release, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said in an interview Saturday. Amado indicated that the Portuguese Ministry of Internal Affairs would have to determine th (More) |
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Bermuda leader survives non-confidence vote after taking Guantanamo Uighurs
Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown Saturday survived a vote of no confidence by Bermuda's lower house of parliament, the House of Assembly , which was seen as an attempt to punish Brown for accepting four Uighur Guantanamo detainees to the Atlantic i (More) |
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Saudi rehabilitation program a model for Guantanamo detainee repatriation
Christopher Boucek [Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace] "On Friday June 12 it was announced that three more Saudi detainees held at Guantanamo Bay had been repatriated back to the kingdom. With their arri (More) |
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ACLU challenges federal prison solitary confinement units
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit Thursday against the US government, challenging the establishment of isolated cells within federal prisons that were allegedly created in violation of federal law. Filed against US Attorney Gene (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.
