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Ex-Guantanamo detainee held in Morocco after transfer
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Errachidi has been detained by Moroccan police after his transfer from US custody last week. Formal charges have not yet been filed against Errachidi, but a source from the Moroccan Ministry of Justice source c (More) |
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US, Australia 'prepared to throw every legal principle out the window': ex-PM
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said Monday that the treatment and trial of Australian detainee David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay demonstrate that the US and Australian governments are "prepared to throw every legal principle out t (More) |
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Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo military commissions case
The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a lawsuit brought by two Guantanamo Bay detainees challenging the legality of their military commissions. In Hamdan v. Gates and Khadr v. Bush [petition for certiorari, PDF] , 06-1169, Yemeni Salim Ahmed (More) |
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Australia would change law to bar Hicks profiting from Guantanamo story: AG
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Monday that the government would amend an existing federal law preventing convicted criminals from profiting from their offenses if it became apparent that it allowed Guantanamo detainee David Hicks t (More) |
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The US, Australia and David Hicks: Abandoning the Rule of Law
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks before a US military commission has demonstrated the disturbing willingness of two allegedly democrat (More) |
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Lawyers taking Rumsfeld war crimes case to Spain after German rejection
German lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck says that he will refile a war crimes complaint against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Spain with the help of Spanish counterparts after the German Federal Prosecutor's office Friday rejected a (More) |
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ABA condemns proposed DOJ restrictions on Guantanamo lawyers
The American Bar Association (ABA) Friday criticized a US Department of Justice proposal [motion, PDF; brief, PDF] that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees should be subject to tightened restrictions , including limited access to their client and (More) |
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New 'high value' al Qaeda detainee transferred to Guantanamo by CIA
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that a top al Qaeda operative has been tranferred to Guantanamo Bay by the CIA. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi , an Iraqi citizen who is suspected of coordinating cross-border attacks on US forces in Afgha (More) |
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German prosecutor rejects war crimes complaint against Rumsfeld
The office of the German Federal Prosecutor Friday declined to investigate a war crimes claim [ASIL backgrounder; PDF introduction, in English] against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking US officials filed by hum (More) |
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Senators spar over habeas rights of Guantanamo detainees
US Democratic and Republic senators sparred over the habeas corpus rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees at a US Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday. In a rare appearance as a committee witness [prepared testimony; recorded video], US (More) |
France resumes nuclear testing in Polynesia
On June 13, 1995, France announced that it would resume nuclear testing in French Polynesia. France signed in 1996 signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, after widespread protests ensued following the resumed tests.
