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Pentagon announces transfer of Guantanamo detainee to Cape Verde
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Sunday that Shawqi Awad Balzuhair will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the government of Cape Verde, a small country off the Western coast of Africa. Balzuhair was first captured in Pakistan on Se (More) |
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Secrecy or Disclosure—that is the Question
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Brown Keyder, the State University of New York at Binghamton, discusses IP laws in the US and EU... If any legal concepts may be said to characterize our age, intellectual property (IP) and secrecy would be likely cand (More) |
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Guantanamo: An Unnecessary Presidential Legacy
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Leonard Cutler and Shelby Davis of Siena College discuss the failed attempts by President Obama to close the Guantanamo prison As Barack Obama's presidency comes to a close, the fate of Guantanamo prison remains unclear. D (More) |
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Obama blames failure to close Guantanamo on congressional restrictions
US President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged the difficulties he has encountered trying to shut down the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, blaming his failure on congressional restrictions. On his second day in office in 2009, Obama issued Exec (More) |
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit by former Guantanamo detainee
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that was filed by a former Guantanamo detainee seeking to clear his name of the accusations of terrorism. The former detainee, Shawali Khan, was returned to Afghanistan in 2014 . One of Khan's complaint (More) |
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UN rights experts urge US government to end mandatory detention of migrants
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Monday called on the US government to "abolish the mandatory detention of migrants, especially asylum seekers, from all countries." The working group stated that mandatory detention was a violation of (More) |
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Former Guantanamo detainee ends hunger strike after resettlement compromise
Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a Syrian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, on Saturday ended his 68-day hunger strike. Dhiab was among a number of former detainees who were resettled in Uruguay in an effort to close down the detention center . He began a hunger stri (More) |
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Federal appeals court upholds conviction of Osama bin Laden's personal assistant
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a conspiracy conviction of the former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that a military tribunal had jurisdiction to convict Ali Ham (More) |
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'Guantanamo Diary' author released
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of the 2015 Guantanamo Diary memoir, was released from Guantanamo Bay on Monday after 14 years of imprisonment. He was transferred back to his native Mauritania, bringing Guantanamo Bay's population down to 60 inmates. (More) |
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Amnesty: Australia using Nauru as 'open-air prison'
Australia is using the island of Nauru as an "open-air prison," putting refugees and asylum seekers through an abusive processing system as a means to prevent immigration, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) on Monday. The (More) |
Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes
On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.
Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.
