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House denies Guantanamo closure funds, restricts detainee transfers
The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill Thursday that denied the Obama administration's request for $60 million to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and placed limits on the government's ability to transfer detainees (More) |
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Spain weighing US request to take 4 Guantanamo detainees
Spain will consider accepting four Guantanamo Bay detainees at the request of the US government, foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Wednesday. Before Spain responds to the request, Moratinos said that the government will consider the cha (More) |
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Holder tells Senate judiciary committee hate crimes legislation is a DOJ priority
US Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that passing hate crimes legislation is one of his top priorities for the future, during the first Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight hearing [materials; video] of (More) |
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House subcommittee questions Uighur terrorist classification
A US House of Representatives subcommittee questioned why a group of Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs is classified as a terrorist organization during a hearing Tuesday. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organiz (More) |
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Federal judge tentatively approves military lawyers representing Guantanamo detainee
A federal judge said Tuesday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] can be represented by his military lawyers in civilian court, pending the approval of superior officers. US District (More) |
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CIA releases documents describing Guantanamo detainee torture, abuse
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Monday released redacted documents that describe the alleged torture and abuse of Guantanamo Bay detainees in CIA custody, transcribed from Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings. The documents, released (More) |
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EU-US statement on Guantanamo Bay detainees [EU Council]
Joint Statement of the European Union and its Member States and the United States of America on the Closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and Future Counterterrorism Cooperation, based on Shared Values, International Law, and Respect for t (More) |
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EU and US agree on Guantanamo detainee transfer policies
The Council of the European Union and the US jointly released a statement Monday outlining the terms of agreement for EU countries planning to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees. Affirming that the US is primarily responsible for the closure of the (More) |
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Yemen denies plans to transfer Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
The government of Yemen denied Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the US to transfer nearly 100 Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation. According to a statement from the Yemen Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Y (More) |
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Obama's Military Commission and International Law
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that a reconstituted military commission at Guantanamo Bay set up to only prosecute aliens would necessarily violate bilateral treaties, create a "denial of jus (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.
