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ACLU hails Rumsfeld resignation, urges Congress to probe legal abuses
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Wednesday applauded the resignation of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as a "step in the right direction" and urged Congress to launch an investigation into his alleged abuses of power. (More) |
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Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that although Donald Rumsfeld is resigning as US Secretary of Defense, steps should be and will be taken to hold him accountable (More) |
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Rumsfeld resigns as US Defense Secretary
President George W. Bush announced Wednesday in the wake of Democratic Party successes in the US mid-term elections that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is resigning from his position at the Defense Department. Bush said he plans to nominate (More) |
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Majid Khan and meaningful access to counsel
Gitanjali Gutierrez [Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights]: "In March 2003, Majid Khan, his brother, his sister-in-law, and his year-old niece were arrested by Pakistani intelligence. It was more than t (More) |
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DOJ trying to block legal access to detainee who could disclose CIA techniques
The US Department of Justice is attempting to block lawyers' access to Majid Khan, one of 14 "high value" prisoners previously held at a CIA secret prison but recently transferred to the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . (More) |
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Guantanamo commander says detainees no longer forcibly interrogated
US Rear Adm. Harry Harris , chief of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, has said that compulsory interrogations are no longer employed to elicit information from detainees due to their ineffectiveness as compared to "rapport building" (More) |
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Hicks rejected meeting with Australian diplomat for fear of Gitmo punishment: lawyer
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has refused to meet with Australian consular officials in order to avoid punishment by US guards, his lawyer has told an Australian Senate panel. The lawyer said that Hicks believes he has been punishe (More) |
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Military Commissions Act argued unconstitutional
Lawyers representing detainees held in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday petitioned [brief, PDF; second brief, PDF] the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare a portion of the Military Commissions Act of 20 (More) |
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Former top US Iraq commander blames Abu Ghraib scandal for forced retirement
US Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez retired from the military Wednesday saying he was "forced" to leave [Monitor report] because of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal which occurred during his tenure as the commander of all US forces in Iraq. I (More) |
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Navy postpones hearing for Gitmo military lawyer accused of leaking detainee names
A US Navy spokesman said Monday that an Article 32 hearing scheduled for Tuesday in the case of Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, a staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps accused of leaking detainee names while stationed at Guan (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.
