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Australia justice minister denounces US detention of Hicks without trial
Australia's justice minister has denounced the five year detention without trial of Australian citizen David Hicks [JURIST news archive, AI archive] in Australia's boldest official statement in several months concerning the Guantanamo prison (More) |
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US military begins probe of Guantanamo detainee abuse allegations
US Army Col. Richard Basset traveled to the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday to begin an investigation into accusations of abuse . The US Defense Department last week ordered US Southern Command , which oversees the military facility, t (More) |
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Germany probing claims that ex-Gitmo detainee was abused in Afghanistan
A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz [AI case sheet; chronology, PDF], a Turkish citizen who is also a legal resident of Germany, said Tuesday that Germany is investigating allegations of abuse by German soldiers. Kurnaz, who sp (More) |
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Guantanamo whistleblowers ordered not to discuss abuse allegations
Chief US Marine Corps defense counsel Col. Carol Joyce has ordered a top Marine Corps lawyer and a paralegal to refrain from speaking with the press concerning allegations of widespread abuse of prisoners by guards at Guantanamo Bay , a military spo (More) |
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Pentagon orders probe into Marine's report of Guantanamo detainee abuse
The US Department of Defense Inspector General on Friday announced that the armed force's Southern Command has been ordered to investigate allegations that detainee abuse is occurring at the military facility at Guantanamo Bay . Last week, US (More) |
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US rejects latest UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous people." UK Forei (More) |
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Former Guantanamo detainees returned to Afghanistan allege US abuse
Sixteen Afghan men were reunited with their families Thursday after being released by the US military from four years of detention in Guantanamo Bay . The men denied links to Islamic terror groups and alleged abuse at the hands of their captors as (More) |
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80 Guantanamo detainees could face military commission trials
As many as 80 Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial before military commissions, a US State Department legal adviser said Thursday. John Bellinger also said President Bush will sign Congress' recently-passed military commissions bill , o (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees lose bid to force UK government to help with release
The UK Court of Appeal Thursday upheld an earlier High Court ruling and denied a bid by the families of three Guantanamo Bay detainees who were UK residents prior to their detention to require the British government to lobby the US for their rel (More) |
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David Hicks and the US Military Commissions Process: Next Steps
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of ANU College of Law, Australian National University, says that while passage of the new Military Commissions Act in the United States presents new challenges for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, it als (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
