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Military judge orders stop to 9/11 hearing censoring
A military judge on Thursday ordered the removal of any monitoring system that censors the public broadcast of the 9/11 military commission hearings. The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay Colonel James Pohl noted that only he and the court (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee seeks ECHR ruling on Poland role in CIA secret prison
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah on Monday asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to rule on whether Poland violated their client's rights by aiding the US in detaining and allegedly torturing Zubaydah in a secret CIA pri (More) |
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Defense lawyers seek to preserve prisons as evidence in 9/11 trial
Defense lawyers for the five accused 9/11 conspirators petitioned a US military judge at Guantanamo Bay on Monday to preserve the prisons where the defendants were held as evidence. The defendants claim that they were tortured during their time h (More) |
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US appeals court vacates conviction of al Qaeda media director
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday vacated the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul [HRW profile; JURIST news archive], the media secretary of Osama bin Laden . The DC Circuit ruled [Miami H (More) |
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DOJ asks DC Circuit to reverse terrorism conviction of al Qaeda media director
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to reverse the terrorism conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul [HRW profile; JURIST news archive], the media secretary of Osama bin Laden , be (More) |
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Federal judge rules Guantanamo detainee has no right to top secret information
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that lawyers for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay may not review top secret documentation. Wali Mohammed Morafa, who has been detained for financially aiding the operation (More) |
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Obama signs defense spending bill despite Guantanamo restrictions
US President Barack Obama [official website; JURIST news archive] signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA) into law on Thursday. The bill, which authorizes appropriations for military activities for 2013, expressly prohibits us (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee launches defamation suit against UK agencies
Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer has filed a defamation lawsuit claiming that British agencies MI5 and MI6 had given the US statements the agencies knew to be false. While Aamer has been cleared for release from Guantanamo, he has not been return (More) |
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Federal judge affirms denial of habeas petition for Guantanamo detainee
A federal judge for the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday affirmed a denial of a petition for habeas corpus from Guantanamo Bay detainee Khirullah Khairkhwa . The US District Court for the District of Col (More) |
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Vance v. Rumsfeld: An Erosion of Torture Protection
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Hu of the Center for Constitutional Rights says that the Seventh Circuit misinterpreted Supreme Court precedent in Vance v. Rumsfeld and consequently diminished a fundamental constitutional protection... (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."
