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Bad Politics, Worse Law: Re-writing the UK Human Rights Act
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that the UK government's push to limit the application of the Human Rights Act in matters of public safety is politically (More) |
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Full Guantanamo names list [US DOD]
List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006, US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006. Read the full list of names. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Pentagon releases more Guantanamo detainee names
The Pentagon Monday released the names of 759 current and former Guantanamo prisoners pursuant to a court-approved agreement with the Associated Press, which had separately sued the Defense Department under the Freedom of Information Act to disclo (More) |
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Russia jails two ex-Guantanamo detainees for 2005 pipeline attack
A Russian court in Tatarstan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees and another man to between 11 and 15 years in prison for their involvement in a January 2005 gas pipeline explosion on the Volga River. The three had been acquitted (More) |
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Guantanamo military commission trial stay [US DC]
Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi v. George Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmett Sullivan, May 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Federal judge stays Guantanamo military commission trial of Saudi terror suspect
A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda to build car bomb detonators in Pakistan and sen (More) |
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Guantanamo Exported: 'Illegal Combatants' and the Israeli Supreme Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Ron Dudai of the SOAS School of Law at the University of London (UK) says that the dubious US response to 9/11 has given Israel an excuse to engage in its own questionable practices, as reflected by a recent Israeli Supreme Cou (More) |
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US dismisses UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
US officials have dismissed a call from UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay used to detain terror suspects, saying that the US is working to release detainees who no longer pose a threat, but insisting that (More) |
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Goldsmith Guantanamo closure speech [UK AG]
UK Terrorism Legislation in an International Context, Lord Peter Goldsmith at the Royal United Services Institute, May 10, 2006 . Excerpt:...the existence of Guantanamo Bay remains unacceptable. It is time, in my view, that it should close. Not only (More) |
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UK Attorney General invokes American traditions in call to close Guantanamo Bay
British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith , already a critic of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , Wednesday made a forceful public call for the shutdown of the facility. Making a speech in London's Whitehall, Goldsmith reminded his a (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.
