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Pentagon rules thwart fair trials for Guantanamo detainees: US military lawyer
A US military lawyer acting as defense counsel for a Yemeni prisoner on trial for terrorism-related offenses before a military commission [DOD backgrounder; JURIST news archive] at Guantanamo Bay on Friday challenged a US Department of Defense regu (More) |
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Gitmo detainee alleges torture in Moroccan prison, denounces military commissions
Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Muhammad said Thursday that he had been tortured after United States authorities transported him to a Moroccan prison for interrogation. Muhammad is a suspected al Qaeda member and is charged with conspiring with al (More) |
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Guantanamo Bay military tribunals resume pre-trial hearings
The US military commissions [DOD backgrounder; JURIST news archive] at Guantanamo Bay are scheduled to resume proceedings Tuesday, with pre-trial hearings scheduled for four prisoners facing terrorism-related charges. Among those scheduled to appear (More) |
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Defense Department releases remainder of Guantanamo names
The US Department of Defense Monday released 2,600 pages of case review documents pertaining to Guantanamo Bay prisoners, finally making public the names of all 490 prisoners currently held at the facility after disclosing the identities of more t (More) |
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Two British residents held at Guantanamo say UK assisted capture
Lawyers for two long-time British residents seized by the US and detained at Guantanamo Bay claim to have documents that indicate British officials prompted their arrests while withholding information that would have aided the two men. Bisher al-Ra (More) |
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Supreme Court skeptical of military commissions in oral arguments
Most of the eight US Supreme Court justices hearing oral arguments Tuesday in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [Duke Law backgrounder; merit briefs] appeared skeptical of the Bush administration's contention that special military tribunals established by the (More) |
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Guantanamo Algerians complained to visiting delegation about treatment: report
A delegation of Algerian officials made the country's first visit to the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in mid-March to evaluate the conditions of 26 Algerian citizens being held there, according to a report published Tuesday in Alg (More) |
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Scalia remarks spark furor as high court prepares to hear military tribunals case
Newly-disclosed comments by US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made after a speech at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland earlier this month have touched off a furor in the lead-up to Tuesday's oral arguments in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [D (More) |
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Federal judge orders US to give attorney access to Guantanamo prisoner
A federal magistrate has ordered the Bush administration to stop blocking a private attorney from meeting with Salim Muhood Adem, one of the 490 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay . Adem, a Sudanese national arrested in Pakistan, asked for a (More) |
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US military lawyer slams Guantanamo procedures
Maj. Michael Mori, the US Marine Corps lawyer representing Australian terror suspect David Hicks [JURIST news archive; advocacy website] in military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay , said Monday that the "imbalanced system" at Gua (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."
