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DOD legal advisor denies Guantanamo prosecutor pressured for secret trials
The legal advisor to the Convening Authority for Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W.Hartmann , Wednesday denied accusations by former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis that he was pres (More) |
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Former Guantanamo detainees released from UK custody
Three former UK residents held at Guantanamo Bay who were released from US custody Wednesday and then detained by UK authorities the same day on their arrival home were released from UK custody Thursday. Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour (More) |
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Hamdan POW status ruling [OMC]
United States of America v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Guantanamo Bay Military Commission, December 19, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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UK residents released from Guantanamo detained on arrival
Three UK residents released Wednesday from Guantanamo Bay were detained by UK authorities when they arrived in the UK later in the day. Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur were arrested and Jordanian Jamil el Banna was detained under (More) |
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Former Guantanamo detainees convicted, released after France retrial
A French court Wednesday sentenced five Frenchmen released from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay to one year in prison for "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise" after a retrial. A sixth defendant was acquitted. The m (More) |
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Hamdan entitled to POW status hearing: US military judge
A US military judge ruled Monday that Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] is due a hearing to settle his alleged status as a prisoner of war (POW) under the Geneva Conventions and that the d (More) |
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Federal judge orders hearing on CIA destruction of interrogation videos
US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. said Tuesday that he will hold a hearing to consider whether the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects violated a 2005 court order. Lawyers representing several Guan (More) |
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White House seeking control over JAG promotions: Boston Globe
The Bush administration has proposed a draft regulation that would give political appointees in the Defense Department a role in the promotion of military lawyers working as members of the Judge Advocate General Corps, the Boston Globe reported over (More) |
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DOJ refusing to turn over info on CIA interrogation tapes probe
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that the Department of Justice will not provide information to congressional officials regarding its ongoing probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror susp (More) |
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Destruction of CIA interrogation tapes raises torture suspicions: UN rights expert
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin [official website; JURIST news archive] said Thursday that the destruction of CIA videotapes suggests that US interrogators may have violated international prohibitions again (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.
