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Federal judge orders release of Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ordered the release of Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Khaled Al-Mutairi. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly granted Al-Mutairi's petition for habeas corpus, finding insuffi (More) |
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Al-Mutairi Guantanamo release order [US DC]
Mutairi, et al. v. USA, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, approved July 29, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Khaled al-Mutairi. (More) |
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Ireland to take 2 Guantanamo detainees
Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern announced Wednesday that Ireland will accept two detainees being released from the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay . The detainees will not be admitted as refugees, but rather with permanent residency right (More) |
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Jawad lawyers call for release citing Afghanistan support for repatriation
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad [ACLU materials; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday called on the US District Court for the District of Columbia to sign off on the release of their client, claiming Afghanistan is ready to repatriat (More) |
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Rights group suing UK over rendition of suspected terrorist
Human rights group Reprieve announced Tuesday that it is suing the British government [filing letter, PDF; press release] over the rendition of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni from Indonesia to Egypt, where it says he was tortured. The group alleges tha (More) |
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Obama administration may bring more Guantanamo detainees to US
The Obama administration is considering transferring more Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US, according to testimony Friday by US Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson to the the House Armed Services Committee . Some detainees cou (More) |
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Terrorism trials should be held in US federal courts: rights group
Terrorism suspects should be prosecuted in US federal courts instead of military commissions, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights First . The report, prepared by two former federal prosecutors, claims that the civilian court sy (More) |
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UN rights investigators denied access to Guantanamo detention facility
The US government has turned down requests from two separate UN investigators to visit the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay , the Washington Post reported Thursday. UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak and UN special rapporteur on human (More) |
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Pentagon media program did not violate propaganda rules: report
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded Tuesday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) did not violate prohibitions on propaganda by having retired military officers (RMOs) offer public support to the Bush administration's war (More) |
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HRW urges Holder to open criminal investigation into Bush-era interrogations
Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent an open letter Monday to US Attorney General Eric Holder to "express strong support for opening a criminal investigation into abusive interrogation practices by the US government since the attacks of September (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
