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Supreme Court rejects expedited review of Military Commissions Act challenge
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday refused to expedite its consideration of a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Guantanamo Bay detainees seeking review of the 2006 Military Commissions Act (MCA) [PDF text; J (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee alleges torture, Koran desecration
Mubarak Hussain bin Abul Hasim, a Bangladeshi who had been detained for five-years at Guantanamo Bay , told AFP following his release from Bangladeshi detention last Thursday that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay gave electric shocks and subjected th (More) |
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US military commissions prosecutor slams Hicks military lawyer for alleged excesses
Chief US military commissions prosecutor Col. Morris Davis (USAF) has criticized the conduct of the US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks , suggesting that Major Michael Mori (USMC) has been playing politics with his cas (More) |
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Kuwait court acquits two former Guantanamo Bay detainees
A Kuwaiti court Saturday acquitted former Guantanamo Bay detainees Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah Kamel al-Kundari of charges of fighting against US forces in Afghanistan because of insufficient evidence. The two were repatriated on September 15, 20 (More) |
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Swiss pathologists say suicide likely cause of death in Guantanamo case
A team of Swiss forensic pathologists from Institute of Legal Medicine at Lausanne University Friday announced the results of an autopsy on deceased Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ali Abdullah , concluding that while available evidence supported th (More) |
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Hicks alleges Guantanamo abuses in UK citizenship case documents
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has said as part of a court claim for British citizenship that he was shown a photo of a beaten fellow inmate and told that if he did not co-operate with (More) |
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US returns five more Guantanamo detainees to home countries
The US Department of Defense announced Thursday that it has transferred five more Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the total number of detainees released from Guantanamo so far this year to twel (More) |
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Probe into Gitmo detention of German-Turk delayed as documents withheld
A German probe into the US detention of Murat Kurnaz [AI case sheet; JURIST news archive], a Turkish citizen born in Germany who was held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years, is being delayed because official documents are being withheld by aut (More) |
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US formally approves charges against Australian Guantanamo detainee Hicks
The US military on Thursday formally referred the charges against David Hicks [charge sheet, PDF; JURIST report] to a military commission. Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the Manual for Military Commissions (MMC) [DOD materials; JURIS (More) |
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UN rights chief criticizes US ruling on MCA habeas-stripping provisions
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Wednesday criticized a US federal appeals court ruling [PDF text; JURIST report] supporting Congressional legislation denying "enemy combatants" the right to challenge their detentions i (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.
