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Executions increase in 2008 despite global trend away from capital punishment: report
At least 2,390 people were executed throughout 25 countries in 2008, according to a report [text, PDF; AI press release] released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) , up from the reported 1,252 executions in 2007 . China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Paki (More) |
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US State Department releases annual rights reports
The US State Department (DOS) on Wednesday released its 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . Announcing the release [Flash video; statement text], Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the new Barack Obama administration is seeki (More) |
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State Department defends silence during UN rights reviews
US State Department spokesperson Robert Wood on Tuesday defended the silence of the US delegates during the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of potential rights abuses, saying that the US is not actively participating (More) |
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US to continue sending Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia: Pentagon
A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Monday that the US will not change its policy on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia, despite reports that two former prisoners have joined al Qaeda in Yemen. A US cou (More) |
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Torture and Timing: Explaining the Crawford Concession
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says that the timing of military commissions convening authority Susan Crawford's admission in the last da (More) |
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Federal judge grants Guantanamo habeas petition, orders detainee release
A judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted habeas to Guantanamo detainee Mohammed El Gharani and directed his release. El Gharani, a Chadian citizen born in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in Pakistan on suspici (More) |
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Establishing an International Tribunal for the Mumbai Terror Suspects
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that an international tribunal should be formed to prosecute persons involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks in order to avoid the politically unworkable alternatives of r (More) |
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Human rights conditions worsening in Arab region: report
Human rights conditions are worsening in 12 Arab nations, according to a report [text, PDF, in Arabic; synopsis, PDF] published Friday by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) . The publication, which is the group's first annual r (More) |
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US military prosecutors filing new charges against so-called '20th hijacker'
US Army prosecutors said Wednesday they would be filing new charges against Mohammad al-Qahtani , a Saudi Arabian citizen being held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Al-Qahtani is known as the "20th hijacker" for his alleged r (More) |
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Saudi Arabia renews $34 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced Tuesday that it has renewed claims and is seeking greater damages against 13 local cigarette importers in an effort to "curb the spreading of some serious health problems caused by cigarett (More) |
UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires
On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.
