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Gonzales defends Arar deportation after Canadian inquiry report
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday defended US conduct in handling the Maher Arar [advocacy website; CBC timeline] case, saying that while the US did in fact deport the Canadian citizen, the US was "not responsible for his removal to (More) |
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Canada judge finds US Arar deportation 'very likely' prompted by false RCMP info
Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar [advocacy website; CBC timeline] was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, concluded Monda (More) |
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Five Years Later: Law and the Fog of 9/11
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of Brooklyn Law School says that the lingering fog of the 9/11 attacks has clouded our perceptions, blurred our legal categories, and perhaps also compromised our judgment... For a month after September 11, 2001, (More) |
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UN rights chief calls for US to close secret prisons
President Bush's announcement that 14 terrorism suspects have been transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay is "significant" but not sufficient, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said through a spokesma (More) |
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Moving Beyond Secret Prisons
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that President Bush's acknowledgement that high-level terror detainees have been held in secret CIA prisons should be the beginning of a cleansing process in wh (More) |
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UK spy agency chief refuses to testify in parliament rendition probe
Eliza Manningham-Buller , the head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 , has refused to testify before a joint parliamentary human rights committee investigating terror practices, saying she can appear before only the Intelligence and Security (More) |
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Italy agent says CIA planned more than 10 renditions of Muslims
A senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors that the US Central Intelligence Agency had planned to kidnap more than 10 Muslims suspected of terrorism from Italy and elsewhere and deliver them to Middle Eastern countries for interrog (More) |
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ACLU appeals dismissal of el-Masri CIA rendition suit
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Tuesday it has appealed the dismissal of a highly publicized lawsuit brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials and employees on behalf of Khalid el-Masri , a Le (More) |
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Jordan torture and US renditions report [Amnesty International]
"Your confessions are ready for you to sign": Detention and torture of political suspects in Jordan, Amnesty International, July 24, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Italy refused to participate in CIA rendition: lawyer
Italy refused a CIA request to participate in the alleged extraordinary rendition of an Egyptian cleric suspected of terrorism, a lawyer for an Italian spy agency official told Reuters in an interview published Monday. Luigi Panella, the lawyer r (More) |
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emporer
On December 25, 800 A.D., Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome, Italy. During his lifetime, Charlemagne united most of western Europe for the first time since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is credited with spreading the rule of law throughout his dominions as well as starting the French and German monarchies.
