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California urged to improve prison isolation unit conditions
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged California authorities to end "shocking conditions" in high-security prison isolation units. In a report entitled "The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California's Security Housing Units," AI examined (More) |
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Eric Holder: Prosecutorial Discretion and Extrajudicial Deaths
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of the Lewis & Clark Law School argues that Attorney General Eric Holder should have given some explanation for his decision to refrain from prosecuting any suspects after spending years investigating the Central I (More) |
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ACLU: US government releases names of Guantanamo prisoners approved for transfer
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced on Friday that, following a request it made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) , the government has released the names of 55 detainees who were approved for release from Guantanamo Bay (More) |
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UN rights chief urges Georgia to investigate prison torture
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday called on authorities in Georgia to investigate prisoner mistreatment after video footage earlier this week allegedly depicted the torture and rape of prisoners in the country's capital of (More) |
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Guantanamo Detainees: The 'Other' Victims of 9/11
JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the continuing military detention of persons who have been cleared for release is an unjustifiable consequence of the political aspects of the war on terror... (More) |
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Federal judge rejects new restrictions on Guantanamo detainees' access to counsel
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday rejected new restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees who have had their habeas corpus challenges denied or dismissed. In hearing the challenge to the (More) |
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US charges Guantanamo detainee with supporting terrorism
The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday that the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions has filed terrorism charges against a Saudi Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up oil tankers near Yemen. The detai (More) |
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Federal judge skeptical about new Guantanamo access to counsel restrictions
The US District Court for the District of Columbia held a hearing Friday regarding a challenge to new restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees who have had their habeas corpus challenges denied or dismissed. Chief Judge Royce (More) |
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DOJ argues continued attorney access at Guantanamo is government decision
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a brief with the US District Court for the District of Columbia asserting that the government should decide when a Guantanamo Bay prisoner is granted continued regular access to legal counsel a (More) |
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ECHR urged to review claims of CIA secret prison in Romania
The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) announced Monday that it urged the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to review allegations that Romania was involved in the torture and other ill-treatment of a Saudi Arabian currently facing a deat (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."
