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Guantanamo prison closure order hailed worldwide
Human rights figures and political leaders around the world hailed Thursday's executive order [text; JURIST report] by US President Barack Obama closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (More) |
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Intelligence director nominee stresses civil liberties in testimony
Admiral Dennis Blair, nominated [press release, JURIST report] by US President Barack Obama for Director of National Intelligence, on Thursday stressed his respect for civil liberties and lawfulness in intelligence investigations during testimony (More) |
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Banning Torture is Not Enough
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that President Barack Obama should follow up his executive order banning torture and inhumane interrogation by fulfilling treaty-based and customary international le (More) |
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Obama orders Guantanamo prison closed within a year
US President Barack Obama issued an executive order Thursday directing that the Guantanamo Bay military prison be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of this order." The order also instructed Secretary (More) |
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Guantanamo judges grant Obama motions to suspend military commission proceedings
A military judge on Wednesday suspended for 120 days the military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay against five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators , including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], granting a request [motion, (More) |
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Guantanamo is Closing: Now What?
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison by executive order of new US President Barack Obama pointedly leaves open the politically and legally troubling quest (More) |
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Torture and Timing: Explaining the Crawford Concession
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says that the timing of military commissions convening authority Susan Crawford's admission in the last da (More) |
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UN torture investigator calls on Obama to charge Bush for Guantanamo abuses
US President Barack Obama has an obligation to bring charges against former President George W. Bush [official profile; JURIST news archive] and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for ordering illegal interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay (More) |
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Obama directs prosecutors to seek Guantanamo military commissions delay
US President Barack Obama on his first day in office Tuesday directed military prosecutors to pursue a 120-day continuance in military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay against five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators , including Khalid Sheikh Mo (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees seeking UK asylum would face uncertain future under current law
Liz Griffith [Policy Officer, Law Centre (NI), Belfast, Northern Ireland]: "President-elect Obama's apparent decision to close Guantanamo has received wide support in the UK government. Nine UK nationals were returned to the UK in 2004 and 2 (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.
