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Guantanamo detainees charge sheets [US DOD]
Charge Sheets, US Department of Defense, updated November 4, 2005 . Read the full text of the charge sheets here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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US charges five more Guantanamo detainees with war crimes
The Pentagon Monday charged five more Guantanamo Bay detainees - two Saudis, an Algerian, an Ethiopian and a Canadian - with war crimes, bringing to nine the number of detainees charged out of some 500 held at the Cuba naval station. The announcemen (More) |
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US Supreme Court to hear foreigner rights, workmen's compensation cases
In addition to considering the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [PDF certiorari petition] case involving Guantanamo tribunals , the US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three other cases. In Bustillo v. Johnson, the Court will consider the appeal of (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear challenge to Gitmo tribunals
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's use of military tribunals for foreign terror suspects. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [PDF certiorari petition] comes on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the DC (More) |
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US releases Saudi, Bahraini prisoners from Guantanamo
Three Bahrainis and a Saudi national were released Saturday from detention at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay . None of the released detainees was ever charged with a crime under US law. According to a Bahraini lawmaker, the three Bahraini national (More) |
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Lawyers for suicidal Gitmo detainee ask federal judge for help
Lawyers for Jumah Dossari , the Bahraini Guantanamo detainee identified as having made a suicide attempt during an October 15 visit by attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , asked a federal judge Friday to order a relaxation of his solitary confinement, (More) |
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US report to UN torture committee defends terror detentions
The US State Department Thursday posted online a report submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva last month in which the US argued for indefinitely detaining suspected combatants in the war on terror. The report relied (More) |
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Five Kuwaiti detainees released from Guantanamo Bay
Five Kuwaiti citizens have been released from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay , Kuwait Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Thursday. The five men are among 11 Kuwaitis who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo for nearly the last four y (More) |
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EU to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe
The European Commission said Thursday that it plans to investigate allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is using a Soviet-era compound in eastern Europe as part of a secret prison system to hide and interrogate al Qaeda suspects (More) |
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CIA reportedly holding al Qaeda terror suspects in covert prison system
The Central Intelligence Agency has held and interrogated some of its most important al Qaeda suspects at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to current and former intelligence officials and di (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
