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UN torture expert urges EU pressure on US to shut down Guantanamo
Manfred Nowak , the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture told reporters Thursday that the European Union should push the US to close its detention center at Guantanamo Bay due to documented human rights violations , and that EU countries should put so (More) |
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AP sues Pentagon for all Guantanamo detainee identities
The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Department of Defense seeking the release of records and identities of the more than 750 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay since 2001, some 260 of which have been released. In the suit fil (More) |
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Pentagon defends force-feeding at Guantanamo
Pentagon officials said Friday that the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay would continue despite opposition from doctors who signed an open letter published in the British medical journal Lancet earlier this week. Th (More) |
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The UN Guantanamo Report: False Premise, Flawed Conclusions
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says the recent report by UN Special Rapporteurs condemning the US detention camp at (More) |
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Doctors condemn US force-feeding policy at Guantanamo Bay
In an open letter in the British medical journal Lancet , more than 250 doctors from seven countries have urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined by independent physicians and that methods such as force-fee (More) |
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Adel's Anniversary: A Guantanamo Tale
JURIST Special Guest Columnist P. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, working pro bono with a team of Bingham lawyers in the Guantanamo habeas litigation, says that the detention of a Chinese Uighur is just one proof that the general, (More) |
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Muslims in British terrorist prison say staff 'don't understand' them
Britain's chief inspector of prisons has expressed concern after Muslim inmates in London's maximum-security Belmarsh Prison - dubbed "the UK's Guantanamo Bay" by the British press - told authorities that the staff did not un (More) |
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Gonzales questions relevance of Geneva protections, defends Gitmo policies
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted Tuesday that US treatment of detainees is consistent with the Geneva Conventions , but questioned the relevance of some Geneva provisions in the context of "this new kind of war, against this new k (More) |
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Gitmo better than Belgian prisons, Europe detentions expert says after visit
An expert for Europe's largest security organization said Monday that prisoners held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are treated better than inmates in Belgian jails, after he returned from a visit to the prison last week. Alain Grig (More) |
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No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive Branch and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions (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."
