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Third Guantanamo Bay detainee plans to boycott military commission trial
Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi [DOD materials; JURIST report] said at a pre-trial hearing Thursday that he plans to boycott his upcoming military commission trial, becoming the third Guantanamo Bay detainee to announce boycott pla (More) |
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Guantanamo guards seize items given to Khadr by military lawyer
Guards at Guantanamo Bay have confiscated several unapproved items, including news articles printed off the Internet and a "Lord of the Rings" movie script, from Canadian detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive], officials (More) |
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Afghan court trying ex-US detainees based on questionable evidence: rights group
A criminal court in Afghanistan is trying detainees previously held by the US detainees at Bagram Air Base and Guantanamo Bay and is relying primarily on allegations and evidence provided by the US military, the New York Times reported Thursday. Ot (More) |
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Report from Guantánamo: torture memo example of authorized prisoner abuse
Deborah Colson [senior associate, Human Rights First, Law and Security]: "In a March 2003 Office of Legal Counsel memorandum, released for the first time last week, John Yoo justified the use of cruel interrogation techniques on "unlawful c (More) |
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Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee plans boycott of military commission trial
A Saudi Arabian Guantanamo Bay detainee said during a pre-trial hearing Wednesday that he plans to boycott his upcoming military commission trial and does not wish to attend or have legal representation. Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi described (More) |
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Military defense lawyer appointed for alleged 9/11 mastermind
The US Department of Defense has assigned Navy Captain Prescott Prince [Miami Herald profile, PDF] to defend confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] before a US military commission, the Miami Herald re (More) |
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The Yoo Torture Memo: Break the Silence of the Lambs
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the recently released 2003 John Yoo memo on US military interrogation techniques opened up a path to torture and leaves a great number of persons potentially crimin (More) |
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Military commission charges confirmed against Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee
The US Department of Defense said Monday that charges have been referred against Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Kamin, who is accused of providing material support to terrorism [sworn charges, PDF; JURIST report]. If convicted, Kamin face (More) |
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Torture From the Top Down: Of Memos and Rotting Fish
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says that the recently-released 2003 DOJ memo on military interrogations written by then deputy assistant atto (More) |
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Who defines 'enemy' in 'enemy combatant'? The strange case of Huzaifa Parhat...
Sabin P. Willett [attorney for Guantanamo Uighur detainee Huzaifa Parhat; Bingham McCutchen LLP]: "For years, lawyers for Guantanamo detainees have argued that the "evidence" on which their clients were held is remarkably flimsy. On Fr (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.
