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UN torture treaty strengthened by new protocol on visits to detention centers
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] Thursday announced the entry into force of an Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punish (More) |
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UN torture investigator says Europe could help close Guantanamo by taking detainees
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told an Austrian radio station Thursday that European countries could help bring about the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center by accepting some detainees into their judicial and penitentia (More) |
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Rights group accuses Iraq insurgents of war crimes after soldiers' bodies found
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that insurgents in Iraq have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law and pointed to the kidnapping of two US soldiers last week as another example of the war crimes that are committed i (More) |
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Guantanamo suicide evidence preservation motion [CCR]
Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence, Center for Constitutional Rights, US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 21, 2006 custody, let alone how," and that a preservation order would not be unduly burdensome on the governme (More) |
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Bush suggests US trials for Guantanamo detainees at US-EU summit close
Speaking Wednesday at a news conference after a US-EU summit meeting in Vienna [press release; White House backgrounder], President George W. Bush suggested that the White House is open to having Guantanamo Bay detainees tried in US courts, as opp (More) |
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Cuba blasts US rights record at Human Rights Council meeting
Cuba and the United States exchanged barbs Tuesday over the US human rights record on the second day of the inaugural session [opening ceremony statements; JURIST report] of the UN Human Rights Council official website; JURIST news archive] in Gene (More) |
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Rights group asks federal court to preserve evidence in Guantanamo Bay suicide
In an effort to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the suicide of three Guantanamo Bay detainees , the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence [PDF text; press release] in federal court lat (More) |
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Pentagon documents detail despair at Guantanamo before suicides
Newly released Pentagon documents provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay prior to the three suicides there earlier this month, according to ACLU Executive Director Anthony Ro (More) |
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Guantanamo hearing for Canadian postponed after suicides
The US Office of Military Commissions [official website; Wikipedia backgrounder] has delayed a pretrial hearing for Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen and Guantanamo Bay detainee charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, due to (More) |
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Guantanamo Suicides and the Loss of American Legitimacy
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the recent suicides of three prisoners at Guantanamo Bay graphically represent and reinforce America (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.
