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Al Darbi hearing postponement ruling [US Military Commissions]
United States of America v. Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza Al Darbi, US Military Judge Col. James Pohl, May 19, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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'Change' at Guantanamo: Reality or Illusion?
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that President Obama's recent announcement that his administration will reform rather than abolish the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay threatens to undercu (More) |
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The Complicity of Dick Cheney: No 'Necessity' Defense
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that former Vice President Dick Cheney's statements about his direct involvement in the authorization of unlawful interrogation tactics such as waterboarding are (More) |
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US releases Guantanamo detainee Boumediene to France
US officials said Friday that Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has been released and sent to France . Boumediene was the named plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush [opinion, PDF; JURIST report], in which the (More) |
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Obama administration reviving military commission system with changes
US President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is reinstating the controversial military commission system [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] to try some Guantanamo Bay detainees. Obama said that there will be changes to the system to increa (More) |
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UN rights chief urges US to hold Bush-era officials accountable for 'torture'
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US Wednesday to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration. Pillay welcomed the US as a new member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and laud (More) |
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Federal judge adopts new standard in ordering release of Guantanamo detainee
Judge Gladys Kessler of the US District Court for the District of Columbia has released an opinion to accompany last week's order [text, PDF; JURIST report] granting the habeas corpus petition of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Alla Ali Bin Al (More) |
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Former Nuremberg prosecutor King dies at age 89
US Nuremberg trials prosecutor Henry King Jr. died [NYT obituary; CWRU press release] Saturday from cancer at the age of 89. King, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and a JURIST Forum commentator on war crimes issues, (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee habeas corpus ruling [US DC]
Petitioners v. Barack Obama, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, May 11, 2009 [holding that the US government failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Guantanamo Bay detainee Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed "substantial (More) |
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Rights groups decry Obama military commissions revival plan
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday harshly criticized the Obama administration's reported consideration of reviving the military commissions system to try Guantanamo Bay detainees . ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero ca (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.
