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Canada to remove US from list of states where prisoners risk torture
Canadian Foreign Minster Maxime Bernier said Saturday that the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will remove the US from an internal document that lists countries that employ interrogation methods that amount to torture (More) |
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Khadr military trial violates international law on child soldiers: lawyers
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr on Friday argued that he was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for trying him lacks jurisdiction over the case. In the motion, filed wi (More) |
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Canada document includes US on list of states where prisoners risk torture
An internal document circulated to diplomats in the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade lists the US as a country that employs interrogation methods that amount to torture and where prisoners risk being tortured, according (More) |
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Congress told CIA interrogation videos destroyed against instructions: Hoekstra
John Rizzo, the acting general counsel of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , said Wednesday that the former head of the clandestine branch of the CIA Jose Rodriguez ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror su (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks out of prison, but no freedom in sight
Ross Ray QC [President, Law Council of Australia]: "David Hicks may have been released from prison on 29 December, but he is not a free man. Although it has not been alleged, let alone proven, that Hicks has committed any offence under Australia (More) |
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Ex-CIA official will not testify at videotape destruction hearing
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the clandestine branch of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , will not appear at a closed congressional hearing later t (More) |
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Top US military commander calls for closing Guantanamo
Admiral Mike Mullen , the Chairman of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff , said in an interview with reporters Sunday that the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should be closed. Mullen, who was confirmed by the Senate as Chairman in Au (More) |
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Guantanamo commander reassigned after six-month tenure
US Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby , commander of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, was reassigned Friday after only six months at that position. The date of Buzby's departure for the Virginia-based US Fleet Forces Command has not been publicly (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo detainees torture lawsuit ruling [DC Circuit]
Shafiq Rasul et al. v. Richard Myers, Air Force General et al., January 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Anti-Guantanamo protesters arrested at US Supreme Court
Seventy-one people were arrested at the US Supreme Court Friday during a protest calling for the closing of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . Protesters were arrested inside and outside the building and charged with violating an ordi (More) |
Catholic Church abolishes index of prohibited books
On June 14, 1966, the Roman Catholic Church abolished the Index Librorum Prohibitum (index of prohibited books). The list was first published in 1559 to ban books that the Church considered immoral or contradictory to Church teachings.
Search a database of the Index Librorum Prohibitum.
