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Former US secretaries of state recommend closing Guantanamo Bay prison
Five former US secretaries of state Thursday called for the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay at a conference held at the University of Georgia School of Law to discuss foreign policy issues. Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, Henry (More) |
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Guantanamo's Uighurs: No Justice in Solitary
JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by hol (More) |
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Canada Supreme Court hears Khadr appeal on government documents access
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] argued before the Supreme Court of Canada Wednesday that the Canadian government should be compelled to turn over confidential documents that they say led to Khadr' (More) |
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ABA president expresses 'grave concern' over military commission process
American Bar Association (ABA) President William H. Neukom said in an op-ed published on the ABA website Monday that American lawyers are "deeply troubled by six death penalty cases" being tried by the military commissions process at Gua (More) |
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No Refuge from Habeas: Protecting US Citizens Held by US Forces
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel at the Constitution Project, amicus in the US Supreme Court in support of habeas petitioners Mohammed Munaf and Shawqi Omar in Munaf v. Geren and Geren v. Omar, says that America (More) |
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Uighur Guantanamo detainee letter
Letter from Abdulghappar Turkistani, March 20, 2008 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Canada Supreme Court to hear arguments on legality of Khadr detention
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] could present evidence before the Court that the US is detaining Khadr in violation of international law. At a hearing (More) |
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Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainee pleads for release in letter
Seventeen Chinese Uighur Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay for six years have still not been told why they are being held at the military facility, according to a letter written by one of the detainees and released by his lawyers Wednesday. Accord (More) |
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US military judge rules Hamdan lawyers can question Guantanamo detainees
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has affirmed a prior ruling [PDF text; JURIST report] that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] may send written questions to Khalid Sheik Mohammed an (More) |
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Khadr military judge evidence disclosure ruling significant
Aisling Reidy [Senior Legal Advisor, Human Rights Watch]: "On March 13, the defense for Omar Khadr had some fairly basic objectives - to get the government to disclose evidence, such as notes relating to the interrogation of their client when he (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.
