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Red Army Faction leader's release shows terrorists should be treated as simple criminals
Richard Huffman [creator of Baader-Meinhoff.com and author of The Gun Speaks]: "Christian Klar, leader of the notorious Red Army Faction, the leftist terrorist group that waged war on Germany from 1970 through the early 1990s, was released from (More) |
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Second Circuit upholds convictions in 1998 US embassy bombings
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the convictions of three men found guilty of involvement in the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The court held that Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, Mohamed Rashed Daoud (More) |
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Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that as US federal courts begin to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to render justice to Guantanamo detainees whose legal process has been too long delayed, the (More) |
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Obama aides favoring commission on counter-terror methods: report
Some officials in the formative administration of US President-elect Barack Obama have said they support the creation of a bipartisan congressional commission to investigate potentially abusive US counter-terrorism policies, according to a Newsweek (More) |
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New judge assigned to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed military commission trial
The US military has assigned Army judge Col. Stephen Henley to preside over the the war crimes trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the self proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks , according to a Miami Herald repor (More) |
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UN torture investigator calls on Europe to accept Guantanamo asylum applicants
UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Manfred Nowak [official website; JURIST news archive] said Thursday that European countries should grant asylum to Guantanamo detainees who are eligible (More) |
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Australia police to lift control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced Thursday that they will lift restrictions on former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . The announcement came after Hicks issued a plea by posting a video on the website of Australian adv (More) |
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Federal judge orders five Guantanamo detainees released
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainees. In the first ruling on detainees' rights since the June Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush [op (More) |
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DOJ seeks modification of Guantanamo appeals rules
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a government motion asking a federal judge to review the procedure for handling appeals by detainees being held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay . The DOJ claims that the current rules (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees release order [DC Circuit]
Lakhdar Boumediene, et al., v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 20, 2008 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (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.
