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China criticizes US human rights record in annual report
China accused the US of numerous human rights abuses on Thursday in its Human Rights Record of the US in 2006 [report text, in English; press release], the Chinese state response to US criticism in Tuesday's publication of the 2006 US State Depa (More) |
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Hicks arraignment before Guantanamo military commission set for March 20
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] will be arraigned before a US military commission on March 20, marking his first commission appearance after over five years in US detention. Australian Prime Min (More) |
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Reporters barred from status hearings for 'high-value' Guantanamo detainees
Reporters will not be allowed to attend hearings that will determine if the 14 "high-value" terror suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prisons last September are "enemy combatants," Defense Departme (More) |
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Senior US defense official clears 55 Guantanamo detainees for transfer
The US Department of Defense announced Tuesday that Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England has concluded that 55 Guantanamo Bay detainees are eligible for transfer after reviewing the results of a second round of administrative review board (A (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee alleges torture, Koran desecration
Mubarak Hussain bin Abul Hasim, a Bangladeshi who had been detained for five-years at Guantanamo Bay , told AFP following his release from Bangladeshi detention last Thursday that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay gave electric shocks and subjected th (More) |
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US returns five more Guantanamo detainees to home countries
The US Department of Defense announced Thursday that it has transferred five more Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the total number of detainees released from Guantanamo so far this year to twel (More) |
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Defense secretary rejects proposed Guantanamo court facilities
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected a plan by the US military to construct a $100 million courthouse at Guantanamo Bay [DOD news archive; JURIST news archive]. The complex proposed last October , would have included three new courtrooms, (More) |
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HRW challenges Bush to account for missing CIA 'ghost prisoners'
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday called on US President George W. Bush in a public letter to account for so-called "ghost prisoners" whose whereabouts and identities have been kept secret since September when Bush acknowledged the exist (More) |
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Why Boumediene Was Wrongly Decided
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the recent ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on habeas-stripping under the Military Commissions Act was erroneous a (More) |
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Hicks lawyer suing Australian government for failure to protect
Lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks are filing a claim Monday in the Federal Court of Australia in an attempt to secure Hicks' release. Hicks' Australian defense team, headed by David McLeod, will charge the governm (More) |
Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed
On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the U.N. Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime.
175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the U.S. Psychotropic Substances Act, the U.K. Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Substances Act.
