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Kuwait high court upholds acquittals of former Guantanamo detainees
Kuwait's high court Saturday upheld a May lower court decision acquitting five Kuwaiti citizens formerly held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay of alleged connections with al Qaeda. The five men were returned to Kuwait in November and s (More) |
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UN rights panel chair slams US conduct at ICCPR hearings
Christine Chanet , the chair of the UN Human Rights Committee , criticized the United States in comments to reporters Friday, accusing the US of avoiding its duty to submit to hearings regarding US conformity to the International Covenant on Civil a (More) |
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Canadian Guantanamo detainee Khadr fires US lawyers
Omar Khadr , the nineteen-year-old Canadian citizen who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, wrote a letter to his mother last week telling her that he has fired his US lawyers, the Globe and Mail reported Friday. A US mili (More) |
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Former Saddam deputy PM Aziz files habeas petition with US Supreme Court
A lawyer for Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition with the US Supreme Court , seeking his release from the cus (More) |
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Israel military tribunal releases Hamas official, continues to detain others
An Israeli military tribunal has released one of the eight Palestinian Cabinet ministers detained by Israeli forces last month, though the Israel Defense Forces have not explained why planning minister Samir Abu Eisheh was released. Three other Ha (More) |
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Guantanamo accusations questioned after review turns up basic errors
Accusations against Guantanamo Bay detainees made in declassified documents contain basic factual errors and easily-refuted claims, the Boston Globe reported Friday. After reviewing declassified records, Globe journalists uncovered a number of simp (More) |
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Military lawyers urge senators to support more trial protections for detainees
The highest-ranking lawyers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines weighed in on how terror detainees should be judged during a Thursday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the impact of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . The military lawyers presse (More) |
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Saudi Arabia wants US to return Guantanamo nationals within a year
Saudi Arabia would like to have all of its nationals held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay returned to Saudi custody within one year, Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Turki Al-Faisal said Thursday. Approximately 95 of the (More) |
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Detainee trials legislation 'imperative' by year's end: Warner
US Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said Thursday that the White House should propose detainee trials legislation soon after the return of senior officials from the G-8 summit hosted by Russia this month. In comments during a US Senate Armed Forces Committ (More) |
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Annan praises US decision on Geneva protections for detainees
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to detainees in US military custody "strengthens the international rule of law, and is true to the U.S.'s stro (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
