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Defense secretary rejects proposed Guantanamo court facilities
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected a plan by the US military to construct a $100 million courthouse at Guantanamo Bay [DOD news archive; JURIST news archive]. The complex proposed last October , would have included three new courtrooms, (More) |
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Detainees ask Supreme Court to expedite Military Commissions Act habeas review
Two Guantamano Bay detainees petitioned the US Supreme Court Tuesday to expedite its review of the 2006 Military Commissions Act (MCA) [PDF text; JURIST news archive], which contains a "court-stripping" provision that prevents federal cou (More) |
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Two Approaches to Detention Policy
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that recent court rulings in the US (Boumediene) and Canada (Charkaoui) on the interpretation of laws governing the (More) |
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HRW challenges Bush to account for missing CIA 'ghost prisoners'
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday called on US President George W. Bush in a public letter to account for so-called "ghost prisoners" whose whereabouts and identities have been kept secret since September when Bush acknowledged the exist (More) |
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Why Boumediene Was Wrongly Decided
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the recent ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on habeas-stripping under the Military Commissions Act was erroneous a (More) |
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No need for Dodd bill revisiting Military Commissions Act
James Jay Carafano [Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation]: "The United States military has in its custody a number of enemy combatants at the detention facility Guantanamo Bay. Detainees that are a threat to the United States and its frie (More) |
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Hicks lawyer suing Australian government for failure to protect
Lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks are filing a claim Monday in the Federal Court of Australia in an attempt to secure Hicks' release. Hicks' Australian defense team, headed by David McLeod, will charge the governm (More) |
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Hicks military lawyer doubts fair trial before Guantanamo tribunal
The US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Saturday that Hicks would spend years in court and could not get a fair trial before a US military commission. In remarks at a rally in Adelaide, US Marine Corps Maj. M (More) |
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Quick Supreme Court review of Al Odah/Boumediene needed
Lynne Kates [attorney, Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights]: "In their decision in Al Odah/Boumediene on Tuesday, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit produced a heavily formalist decision upholding the Mili (More) |
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Restore habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees
Caroline Fredrickson [Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office]: "When the 109th Congress passed the Military Commissions Act in September of last year there was a fear in the legal and human rights communities that this meant that detainees (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.
