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Rumsfeld war crimes complaint [CCR]
War crimes complaint against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisors filed with the German Federal Prosecutor on behalf of eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee describes systematic torture
Recently released Turkish-German Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz has told Turkey's CNN Turk that while he was at the US military prison he was subjected to systematic torture at the hands of US personnel, including electric shocks, having (More) |
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DOJ asserts MCA bars enemy immigrants, Gitmo detainees from judicial review
The US Department of Justice argued Monday that immigrants arrested while in the US and labeled as enemy combatants under an expansive definition in the new Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) [PDF text; JURIST news archive] can be indefinitel (More) |
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Rumsfeld war crimes complaint filed in Germany
Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] in Germany Tuesda (More) |
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Former Guantanamo detainees to appeal Morocco terrorism convictions
The head of the independent Human Rights Moroccan Center announced plans Monday to appeal a Moroccan court's conviction of three former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of involvement in terrorism. Khaled al Charkaoui expressed surprise at las (More) |
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Australia repeats intent to seek Hicks return if charges not laid soon
The Australian government will request the return of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks if the US fails to charge him under the revised military commissions framework, Australia's attorney general told a meeting of the Human Rights and Equal O (More) |
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Secrecy, Interrogation and the Rule of Law
JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that the veil of secrecy with which the United States has shrouded the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects makes the rule of law impossible to determine (More) |
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Morocco sentences three former Guantanamo detainees
Morocco state news agency MAP reported Friday that a criminal court in Salé, a twin-city of the capital Rabat, has sentenced three former Guantanamo Bay detainees to prison for their involvement in terror activities. Mohamed Slimani was sen (More) |
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Germany denies abusing terror suspect
The German Defense Ministry has denied allegations that a suspected al-Qaida operative was beaten while in military custody. German newspaper Die Welt Saturday quoted a Ministry report that 32 operatives of Germany's KSK special forces in Afgh (More) |
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Rights groups set to file Rumsfeld war crimes lawsuit in Germany
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced Thursday that a coalition of US and international human rights groups plan to file a war crimes lawsuit against outgoing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld after his resigna (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.
