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Alleged 9/11 conspirators postpone offers to plead guilty at military commission hearing
Three out of five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks , on Monday postponed their offers to plead guilty to the charges against them after (More) |
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Alleged 9/11 conspirators ask to plead guilty at Guantanamo military commission hearing
Five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the self proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks , indicated at a military commission pre-trial hearing on Monday that they wished to plead guilty (More) |
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ACLU protests censorship of Guantanamo detainee testimony
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sought to prohibit government censorship of prisoners' testimony about alleged torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay in a motion filed Friday in military commission proceedings against five "high v (More) |
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Second Circuit rules embassy bombings suspect may be resentenced for terrorism
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a suspected Osama bin Laden associate, imprisoned for 32 years after stabbing a prison guard while in custody, may be resentenced according to heightened standards for acts of terro (More) |
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Federal judge rules Lindh commutation petition exempt from FOIA disclosure
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday held in Associated Press v. United States Department of Justice that the petition for commuted sentence of charged Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh falls under invasion-of-privacy except (More) |
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Spain aided US rendition flights: report
The Spanish Foreign Ministry expressly allowed the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use Spanish resources in transporting terror suspects to Guantanamo Bay, according to a 2002 internal Foreign Ministry memorandum released by Madrid's (More) |
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US to transfer Hamdan to Yemen before end of sentence: reports
Former Osama Bin Laden driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] will soon be transferred from US to Yemeni custody, according to US military sources quoted in media reports Monday. His transfer comes approximately one month b (More) |
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Federal judge refuses to stop Khadr military commission trial
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied [opinion, PDF; order, PDF] a motion by Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] seeking to have the military commission tria (More) |
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The Way Forward: Post-9/11 Principles
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School and panel colleagues at a recent Washburn University School of Law symposium on "The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism" offer their consensus on the appropriate wa (More) |
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DC Circuit hears Uighur release appeal
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments Monday on whether 17 Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay [Kiyemba v. Bush backgrounder and materials] can be released into the US. In early October, a judge for the US District Court fo (More) |
Congress passed Roosevelt's New Deal legislation
On June 16, 1935, Congress passed President Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislation to start a recovery program from Great Depression.
Learn more about FDR and the New Deal from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
