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Canadian Guantanamo detainee boycotts military commission hearings
Nineteen-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr refused to take part in military commission proceedings during a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, claiming that he was mistreated and sent to solitary confinement for no reason. Khadr currently (More) |
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CIA used private air carriers to hide rendition: Amnesty International report
The US Central Intelligence Agency hid its rendition of terrorism suspects to various foreign countries by using private air carriers and "front" companies, according to a new report [PDF text; AI summary] released by Amnesty Internatio (More) |
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Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'
JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Satterthwaite of New York University School of Law says that US actions in the war on terror - especially the practice of extraordinary rendition - make a mockery of formal US insistence on the rule of law, damaging it (More) |
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Egypt emergency laws to be replaced by anti-terror legislation
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has said that he plans to replace the country's 25-year-old emergency laws with anti-terror legislation. The emergency laws, renewed every three years, are set to expire in May. They were adopted in 1981 in (More) |
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Egypt judges demonstrate against interrogation of colleagues after elections criticism
Members of the professional association of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club demonstrated in Cairo Friday, calling for greater judicial independence in Egypt and denouncing the government's order to interrogate six judges who were strip (More) |
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Italy justice minister denounces prosecutor 'pressure' on CIA extraditions
Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has accused Milan prosecutors of unlawfully pressuring him to request the extradition from the US of 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cle (More) |
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US settles post-Sept. 11 detainee lawsuit
The US government has agreed to a $300,000 settlement of claims by an Egyptian that he was abused while being detained by US authorities for months following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The settlement reached with Ehab Elmaghraby is the first reac (More) |
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EU lawmakers hear US renditions evidence
A Human Rights Watch expert Thursday told members of a European Parliament committee formed to investigate allegations that the US has transferred prisoners through Europe on secret extraordinary rendition flights that the United States has gone t (More) |
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Egypt opposition leader to appeal forgery conviction
Ayman Nour , the Egyptian opposition leader jailed for forgery after his unsuccessful campaign last year, has filed an appeal and requested a suspension of his five-year sentence until the appeals court can rule on the matter, his lawyers said Mond (More) |
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Egypt rights groups condemn defamation charges against judges
Human rights groups have condemned the Egyptian Higher Judiciary Council's decision to strip three judges of immunity after they protested voting irregularities during the December parliamentary elections. Members of a group known as the Judg (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
