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Senate committees set to consider Guantanamo trials legislation
Two committees of the US Senate are set for hearings on draft legislation governing trial procedures for Guantanamo detainees after the US Supreme Court ruled June 29 in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that President Bush's military commissions as currently (More) |
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Bush says Supreme Court approved Guantanamo detentions by silence
President Bush suggested Friday in a Chicago news conference that the US Supreme Court had approved the decision to establish a military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by its silence on the issue. Bush also seemed to characterize the Court& (More) |
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Hicks says Guantanamo conditions worse after detainee suicides
David Hicks , the Australian-born terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay , told family members that conditions at the detention center have worsened in the wake of three detainee suicides in June, Hicks' lawyer David McLeod said Thursday. Hicks (More) |
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UN rights experts urge US to set Guantanamo closure date
Five special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called on the US to set a date for closing its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay . In a statemen (More) |
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France defends undisclosed meetings with Guantanamo detainees
France has responded to reports that its intelligence agents interviewed six former Guantanamo Bay detainees now on trial in Paris while they were detained at the US prison, saying that the agents visited the detainees for the administrative purp (More) |
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Undisclosed interviews of Guantanamo detainees jeopardize Paris terror trial
Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees now on trial in Paris were interviewed by French authorities while they were still being held at the US prison, according to a French newspaper. A French diplomatic telegram published in the Liberation daily Wed (More) |
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Guantanamo lawyers balk at more filings in detainee cases
Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners seeking to challenge their detentions in the US federal courts argued Monday before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals that no further filings in their cases were necessary and that enough documentation had been pro (More) |
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Church report on detainee interrogations [US DOD]
Review of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques, VADM A.T. Church III, USN, March 7, 2005; released by the ACLU pursuant to a FOIA action, July 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST (More) |
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Hicks lawyer says new US trial would constitute double jeopardy
A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The lawyer, Maj. (More) |
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Guantanamo commander says most detainees no longer questioned
Rear Admiral Harry Harris , commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , said in remarks published Sunday that as many as 75 percent of Guantanamo inmates no longer provide the US with useful intelligence. Speaking to TIME magazine be (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.
