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Guantanamo military commission rejects detainee bid to move back to better facility
A US military commission at Guantanamo Bay holding a pre-trial hearing in the case against Algerian detainee Sufyian Barhoumi Wednesday rejected his motion to be moved to a less restrictive detention area. Barhoumi, who suffered wounds, including (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees claim US prisoner transfers exposed them to torture
Recently-released US military tribunal hearing records and other documents indicate at that least seven prisoners at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were transferred abroad to jurisdictions practicing torture before their arrival at the bas (More) |
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Former French Guantanamo detainees to face Paris trial
French authorities are charging six former French Guantanamo Bay detainees with terrorism-related crimes, according to officials cited by AFP. The men are Nizar Sassi, Khaled Ben Mustapha, Redouane Khalid, Brahim Yadel, Imad Achab Kanouni, and Mou (More) |
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Guantanamo conditions 'considerably' improved: Red Cross
Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross , said Tuesday that ICRC recommendations to US officials have resulted in considerable improvements in detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay . Kellenberger told Swiss new (More) |
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Saudi prisoner denounces military commission at Guantanamo hearing
Accused Saudi Al Qaeda operative Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, a prisoner at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , told a US military commission there Tuesday that the United States was an "enemy of God" and said he would prefe (More) |
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Two dozen more Guantanamo detainees to be charged
The chief military prosecutor for Guantanamo Bay , USAF Col. Morris Davis , Monday announced plans to charge an additional two dozen Guantanamo detainees and to seek the death penalty against several. Three of the 10 detainees originally charged are (More) |
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US to release 100 Guantanamo detainees once safe destinations are found
The US State Department has said the US intends to release 100 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as soon as it identifies countries that will accept them. Speaking at the US embassy in Paris on Thursday, State Department official Sandra Hodgkinson sa (More) |
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Afghanistan praises release of Gitmo list; China demands repatriation of Uighurs
Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation commission Thursday praised the release of a list of detainees held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay , which was made available as the result of a Freedom of Information Act [text; summary] lawsuit (More) |
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What the Detainee Treatment Act Really Means for Guantanamo Detainees
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the author of an amicus brief on Guantanamo detainee appeals recently filed on behalf of legal scholars in the US DC (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees list [US DOD]
List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process, US Department of Defense, released April 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the list , with prisoners' name associated with country of citizenship. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (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.
