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Trial of six former Guantanamo detainees begins in France
Six Frenchmen who were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay went on trial Monday in Paris, where they stand accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. France freed five of the suspects after their r (More) |
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Hamdan, Common Article 3 and the True Spirit of the Law of War
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the US Supreme Court's finding in Ham (More) |
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Gonzales, top Republicans anticipate law authorizing Gitmo military commissions
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and several Republican US senators expressed optimism over the weekend that the administration and Congress will be able to strike an agreement on legislation to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo (More) |
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Pentagon releases declassified Church report on detainee interrogations
The Pentagon released a declassified version of a 2005 review of US prisoner interrogation practices on Friday. The review, conducted by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church , found that while "interrogation policy could have benefited from additional ex (More) |
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European team inspecting Guantanamo says only 30-40 'real' terror cases possible
The head of a European inspection team tasked with evaluating the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that there may be only 30-40 "real" cases of terrorism there and recommended that the facility be shut down by the end of 2007. (More) |
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Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees claim military seized privileged papers
Lawyers for several Guantanamo detainees claimed Friday that the US military had seized letters from them to their clients and had also taken other legal papers from their clients in an investigation into three inmate suicides at the camp last mon (More) |
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Senate Armed Services Committee chair hesitant on Gitmo tribunals legislation
Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said Friday that Congress must be cautious about passing an alternative to military commissions [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] at Guantanamo Bay , which were struck down by the US Supreme Court earlier this week. War (More) |
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Israel AG says arrested Hamas leaders won't be held as unlawful combatants
Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has said that a group of two dozen Hamas MPs and ministers who were detained Thursday will not be held in administrative detention under the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law . Mazuz said he will in (More) |
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Australia PM still says Hicks should be tried in US after Gitmo tribunals ruling
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that he wants Australian-born terror suspect David Hicks to be tried in American courts even after the US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down military commissions [JURIST report; opinion, PDF] s (More) |
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Lawyers for Canada Guantanamo detainee to request extradition
Lawyers for Omar Khadr , the Canadian citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay and charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, said Thursday they will seek his extradition to Canada. The request follows Thursday's US Supre (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.
