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Bush suggests US trials for Guantanamo detainees at US-EU summit close
Speaking Wednesday at a news conference after a US-EU summit meeting in Vienna [press release; White House backgrounder], President George W. Bush suggested that the White House is open to having Guantanamo Bay detainees tried in US courts, as opp (More) |
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Guantanamo hearing for Canadian postponed after suicides
The US Office of Military Commissions [official website; Wikipedia backgrounder] has delayed a pretrial hearing for Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen and Guantanamo Bay detainee charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, due to (More) |
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Guantanamo Suicides and the Loss of American Legitimacy
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the recent suicides of three prisoners at Guantanamo Bay graphically represent and reinforce America (More) |
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Guantanamo Bay detainees not given access to witnesses despite availability
The Boston Globe reported Sunday that the US government has failed to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees access to witnesses even though some of those witnesses were available. The US has told detainees in the past that it was unable to locate witness (More) |
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France PM says legal rules must be respected in fighting terror
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin offered an implied criticism of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in a speech to the Institute of Higher Studies of National Defense Friday in which he said efforts to fight terrorism must always be (More) |
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US military suspends Guantanamo visits by lawyers, journalists
The US military has canceled regular visits between detainees at Guantanamo Bay and their lawyers this week after three prisoners committed suicide last weekend, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) , which represents many of th (More) |
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No Place for War Crimes: Redrafting the US Army Interrogation Manual
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that the new US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation now being drafted should drop sections that would perpetuate unlawful treatment and illegally differentia (More) |
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AMA clarifies medical ethics standards for MDs supervising prisoner interrogations
The American Medical Association has passed a measure clarifying its ethical guidelines , which prohibit doctors from participating in torture or coercive interrogations. The AMA on Monday reiterated its contention that a doctor's duty is to h (More) |
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Guantanamo and Medical Ethics
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the recent hunger strike and now suicides by prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay h (More) |
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EU panel says CIA 'directly responsible' for illegal detentions, rendition in Europe
A European Parliament committee approved a report Monday that supports allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency was "directly responsible for the illegal seizure, removal, abduction and detention of terrorist suspects" in Eur (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."
