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Pentagon moves forward with military trial of Canadian teenage terror suspect
The US Department of Defense said Thursday that it plans to move forward in the trial against a 19-year old Canadian citizen who was charged [charge sheet, PDF; JURIST report] last month with murdering a US Army medic, despite the judicial stays is (More) |
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Large CIA secret prisons unlikely, but post-9/11 Kosovo camp "shocking": Europe council
The head of the Council of Europe investigation into possible secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe said Friday that the existence of large detention centers for US terror detainees in the region was unlikely. In a statement before the Parliamentary (More) |
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UN human rights representatives call off visit to Guantanamo
United Nations human rights representatives Friday rejected an offer to visit the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay after US officials formally refused their demand for unconditional access to the detainees earlier this week. The envoys from the U (More) |
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Three former Gitmo detainees announce plans to sue US government
Three Bahraini citizens, released from Guantanamo Bay earlier this month, announced Thursday their intention to sue the United States government for detaining them for over four years without a trial at the prison facility. Additionally, the three (More) |
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US refuses UN demand for unconditional Gitmo inspection
The US government has again refused a UN demand to have unconditional access for inspectors to Guantanamo Bay detainees. A State Department spokesman said Tuesday that the US would allow inspections, but that it would not agree to unfettered acces (More) |
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The Graham-Levin Amendment and Due Process at Guantanamo
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the Senate compromise on the Graham Amendment limiting judicial review for Guantanamo detainees leaves the way open for grave mistakes and injustices that may further damag (More) |
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Iraqi officials to investigate allegations of torture by security forces
Iraq’s government announced plans on Tuesday to investigate allegations that Iraqi security forces abused more than 170 prisoners held in central Baghdad, who were found malnourished and showing evidence of torture. Prompted by the repeated p (More) |
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UN inspectors call for unrestricted access to Guantanamo
Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , on Tuesday called for unrestricted inspections of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . The UN plans to send inspectors to Guantanamo on December 6 for a report that Nowak's team is due to c (More) |
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Australian Gitmo detainee military trial delayed
The military commission trial of Australian David Hicks , who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for more than 3 1/2 years, was postponed on Monday by a US district judge until the US Supreme Court rules on the legality of such military tribun (More) |
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Senate to vote on compromise allowing Gitmo detainees to challenge detentions
The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order to contest the legality of their detentions. The G (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."
