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US assures Australia that Hicks will not face death penalty in new military trial
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told Australian TV Saturday that he has received assurances from the US government that it will not seek the death penalty in an anticipated new military trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David H (More) |
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US transfers Guantanamo Bay detainee to German custody
The US Defense Department said Thursday that Murat Kurnaz [AI case sheet; chronology, PDF], a Turkish citizen who is also a legal resident of Germany, has been transferred from Guantanamo Bay into German custody. Kurnaz's release, which was ex (More) |
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Hicks in poor health at Guantanamo after five months solitary: lawyer
Australian detainee David Hicks has been kept in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay for about five months and his health is deteriorating, Hicks' US military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Wednesday. Mori insisted that Hicks is among the (More) |
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Hicks legal papers among those seized by US in Guantanamo suicides probes
Legal papers belonging to Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks were among those seized by US investigators in a probe into the June suicides of three other Guantanamo inmates - a Yemeni and two Saudis - at the US military prison in June, ac (More) |
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Gitmo detainee Hicks stripped of UK citizenship one day after request granted
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks was stripped of British citizenship just one day after he was secretly made a citizen in July, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday. Hicks' court battle for British citizenship ended in May (More) |
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US to release Guantanamo Bay detainee to Germany: report
US officials will release Murat Kurnaz [AI case sheet; chronology, PDF], a Turkish national with ties to Germany, from Guantanamo Bay sometime next week, according to reports in the German media Saturday. Kurnaz was born in Germany and was in the p (More) |
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Australia appeals court overturns landmark anti-terror conviction
The Court of Appeal division of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia on Friday quashed the conviction of Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas , the first Australian jailed under the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002 (More) |
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Gonzales calls UK 28-day detention policy useful anti-terror tool
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday praised new British anti-terrorism laws that helped thwart a terror plot to explode jetliners traveling over the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the provision that allows British authorities to detai (More) |
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Australia AG to seek Hicks' Gitmo release if military trial process not restarted soon
Australia will pursue the return of David Hicks from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay if new charges are not brought and a military tribunal formed by November, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told the Sydney Morning Herald o (More) |
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New military tribunal process could leave Hicks in Gitmo for 7 more years: lawyer
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may serve up to seven more years in US military custody before facing trial under a new military tribunal system, his military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Sunday. Since the US Supreme Court's d (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
