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Guantanamo detainee abuse affidavit [USMC]
Affidavit, Heather N. Cerveny, US Marine Corps, October 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the affidavit . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Marine Corps legal defense coordinator calls for probe of Guantanamo abuses
A top US Marine Corps lawyer has called for an investigation of alleged abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay after reviewing a sworn statement filed by a Marine paralegal who said that last month she spoke with a group of off-duty Marines who iden (More) |
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Rights group claims US used German military base for renditions
British human rights group Reprieve accused the United States in a report issued Friday of using Germany's Ramstein Air Base as a detention center for renditions . Reprieve's sources claim that some of the 14 "high-value" terro (More) |
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Hicks lawyer seeks Australian's return from Guantanamo subject to control order
The lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive; AI profile] is pushing the Australian government to ask the US for Hicks' return by Christmas, allowing him to be kept under a control order authorized by last (More) |
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Stripping detainees of habeas rights: a day of dishonor for America
David Cynamon [partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; Project Kuwaiti Freedom]: "I represent the four remaining Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, captured in Pakistan by bounty hunters and sold to the US government. Before being sol (More) |
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Europe CIA prisons investigator intends to visit Guantanamo
Dick Marty , the Swiss parliamentarian who has been leading the Council of Europe probe into CIA terror secret prisons and renditions in Europe , announced Tuesday that he intends to accompany UN Special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak in a vi (More) |
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UK balking at US bid to return British residents from Guantanamo: report
The US and UK governments have been discussing the release of nine British residents currently being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay , but the British government has so far refused to accept the men, saying that US demands for continue (More) |
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Afghan detainees launch legal challenge to US military commissions bill
Lawyers representing 25 detainees in US custody at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan filed a habeas corpus petition [PDF text; press release] Monday calling for their release and permission to meet with attorneys, two requests not afforded to terroris (More) |
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Australia AG says Hicks Guantanamo trial unlikely to start this year
Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock , speaking with reporters Friday after meeting with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other American officials about the case of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks , said it is unlikely that (More) |
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France judge postpones terrorism verdict for former Guantanamo detainees
French judge Jean-Claude Kross Wednesday postponed a verdict in the trial of six former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan , saying the court needs more information on French intelligen (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."
