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Indonesia to seek access to Guantanamo detainee suspected of Bali bombing
Indonesian police plan to request access to suspected al Qaeda bomber Ridhuan Isammudin (a.k.a. Hambali), currently held at Guantanamo Bay . A spokesman for the Indonesian National Police said that they would coordinate a formal request [Jakarta G (More) |
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US to continue sending Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia: Pentagon
A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Monday that the US will not change its policy on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia, despite reports that two former prisoners have joined al Qaeda in Yemen. A US cou (More) |
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EU member states to consider accepting Guantanamo detainees after screening
Council of the European Union Secretary-General Javier Solana on Monday said that while the US bears ultimate responsibility for detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, several EU member states would likely be willing to accep (More) |
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President Obama: New Hope for International Law?
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that while President Barack Obama's initial executive orders are encouraging signs of renewed American respect for international law, robust American recommitment t (More) |
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Venezuela to renew extradition request for anti-Castro militant
Venezuela will renew its request that the US extradite anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], an official announced on Friday. Venezuela is hopeful that the new Obama administration will be more receptive to th (More) |
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Malaysia seeking return of 2 Guantanamo detainees
The government of Malaysia has asked the United States to permit its security officials to meet with two Malaysian citizens being held in Guantanamo Bay , according to state media Saturday. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that (More) |
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Second Circuit denies defense bid for rehearing in 1998 US embassy bombing case
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday denied a petition for rehearing in the case of Wadih El-Hage who was convicted of the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. El-Hage's petition for rehearing contended (More) |
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No transparency on the Obama White House website
Howard M. Friedman [Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Toledo College of Law]: "For an administration that has made so much of both transparency and technology, to date the Obama staff has earned an extremely low grade on (More) |
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Iraq officials announce reopening of Abu Ghraib prison
The prison formerly known as Abu-Ghraib [CBC backgrounder, JURIST news archive] will be reopened as soon as renovations are completed, and will be renamed Baghdad Central Prison, officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Justice in Baghdad announced on T (More) |
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Obama orders immediate review of al-Marri detention in US
US President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a review of the detention of Qatar national Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri [NYT profile; JURIST news archive]. Al-Marri is the only individual currently being held on US soil by the Department of Defense (D (More) |
Watergate burglars arrested for DNC break-in
On June 17, 1972, James McCord, security director of President Richard Nixon's re-election committee, and four Cuban-Americans are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC.
Learn more about the Watergate scandal.
