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The Omar Khadr Case: Redefining War Crimes
JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, who recently observed the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay for Human Rights Watch, says that the prosecution's argument in the case against Canadian natio (More) |
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Federal judge sides with DOD on FOIA exemptions for Guantanamo transcripts
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment Wednesday for the Department of Defense (DOD) , holding that unredacted transcripts allegedly containing evidence of torture used against fourteen "high-v (More) |
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US military judge grants defense lawyer access to resticted Guantanamo camp
US military judge Col. Ralph Kohlmann ruled Monday that defense attorney Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier could gain access to Camp 7 [Miami Herald backgrounder], a special camp for alleged al Qaeda members classified as "high-value detainees" at (More) |
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US military judge excludes confession of Guantanamo detainee from trial
A US military judge ruled Tuesday that a confession given by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] to Afghan officials following his capture in 2002 was obtained using torture and is therefore inadmissible at h (More) |
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Federal judge rules on meaning of 'enemy combatant'
Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday ruled that in order to be validly held as an "enemy combatants," Guantanamo Bay detainees must have directly supported hostilities against the US or its (More) |
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Second Guantanamo detainee goes on trial before military commission
Alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul went on trial Monday before a military commission at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Al Bahlul is only the second detainee to go on trial in Guantanamo since it opened in 2002. He attended (More) |
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Former Guantanamo tribunals advisor target of military ethics probe
The US Air Force is conducting an ethics investigation of Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann [official profile; JURIST news archive] over allegations that he abused his power and inappropriately influenced the prosecution of enemy combatants at G (More) |
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Detention of Uighurs at Guantanamo is inconsistent with US notions of justice
Moazzam Begg [former Guantanamo detainee and spokesman for Cageprisoners]: "Few people outside of western China or the neighboring central Asian states of the former Soviet Union have heard of the Uighurs. I hadn't heard of them either, unti (More) |
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Khadr military commission trial delayed until January
A US military judge on Friday rescheduled the trial of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] for January 26. US Army Col. Patrick Parrish granted the defense's motion for an independent psychological and psychiatric (More) |
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Pentagon files war crimes charges against two Kuwaitis at Guantanamo
The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday that it has filed new war crimes charges against two Kuwaiti men held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay . Fouad Rabia, a US-educated aeronautical engineer suspected of running a supply dep (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.
