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Ex-Guantanamo detainee civilian trial set for September 2010
A federal judge on Thursday set a trial date for terrorism suspect and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] of September 13, 2010. Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be transferred (More) |
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House subcommittee questions Uighur terrorist classification
A US House of Representatives subcommittee questioned why a group of Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs is classified as a terrorist organization during a hearing Tuesday. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organiz (More) |
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Federal judge tentatively approves military lawyers representing Guantanamo detainee
A federal judge said Tuesday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] can be represented by his military lawyers in civilian court, pending the approval of superior officers. US District (More) |
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China ready to substitute lethal injections for gunshot executions: report
Chinese state media reported Tuesday that Beijing is ready to switch from gunshot executions [China Daily report] of condemned prisoners to lethal injections . A spokesperson for the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said that lethal injection is &q (More) |
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Guantanamo ex-detainee pleads not guilty to US embassy bombings
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to allegations of involvement in the 1998 bombings of US embassies [PBS backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in Tanzania and Kenya. The plea was delivered during his initial (More) |
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Ohio implements new lethal injection protocol in execution
Ohio corrections officials executed convicted murderer Daniel Wilson on Wednesday morning, marking the state's first use of a new lethal injection method termed "set-to-die." The procedure was announced in May, and requires officials t (More) |
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Economic crisis increasing human rights violations: Amnesty annual report
Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Irene Khan said Thursday that the global economic crisis is exacerbating the world's human rights failures, urging governments to "invest in human rights as purposefully as they are investing i (More) |
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Federal judge sentences Islamic charity officials accused of funding terrorism
A US federal judge Wednesday sentenced the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) [ADL backgrounder; case materials] and five of its officials pursuant to their convictions of providing material support to Palestinian group Hamas . District Judge Jorge Solis s (More) |
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Federal jury sentences ex-US soldier to life in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
Former US soldier Steven Green was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. A federal jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky , whic (More) |
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Private contractors in overseas combat zones face legal and psychological risks
Maggie Botes [General Manager, International Contractors Association]: "The International Contractors Association has a Code of Conduct to which all our members subscribe. It promotes integrity and professional conduct, and supports accountabili (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
