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Australia to sue ex-Guantanamo detainee for book royalties
The Australian government announced Thursday that it will sue former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks for royalties from his memoir. Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured in Afghanistan following the (More) |
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UK Supreme Court bars 'secret evidence' in Guantanamo trials
The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that secret service organizations cannot withhold evidence from opposing parties nor conduct closed trials. The appellants, secret service organizations including MI5 , appealing a May 2010 ruling , requested t (More) |
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Military court upholds war crimes conviction of Hamdan
An appeals panel for the US Court of Military Commission Review on Friday upheld the conviction of former Osama Bin Laden driver and Guantanamo Bay detainee, Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive]. The panel, which decided to he (More) |
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Federal judge denies release of Taliban Guantanamo detainee
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ruled against the release of a former high-ranking Taliban official at Guantanamo Bay despite a request from Afghanistan's Peace Council to release the prisoner. Judge Ric (More) |
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Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of Rumsfeld torture suit
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a torture suit against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [ABC news backgrounder; JURIST news archive] brought by four Afghan and five Iraqi c (More) |
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Federal judge overturns release of Yemeni Guantanamo detainee
A judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Hussein Salem Mohammed Almerfedi . After his capture in 2001 and detention at Guantanamo Bay, Almerfedi f (More) |
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EU lawmakers urge US not to seek death penalty in USS Cole trial
The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday urged the US not to seek the death penalty for high-value Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , accused planning the USS Cole bombing in 2000. The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced in (More) |
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Accused USS Cole bomber sues Poland over secret CIA prison site
Lawyers for accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri said Tuesday that they have filed suit [press release; case materials] against Poland in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over his alleged torture at a secret CIA prison in the (More) |
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Guantanamo physicians ignored evidence of mistreatment: study
A study released Tuesday by PLoS Medicine asserts that US military medical personnel responsible for treating Guantanamo Bay detainees consciously disregarded evidence of physical and psychological torture. The report's authors, including a retir (More) |
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WikiLeaks releases classified Guantanamo documents
WikiLeaks on Sunday began publishing The Guantanamo Files , a collection of more than 700 classified documents relating to the evidence and treatment of almost all detainees held at Guantanamo Bay between 2002 and 2008. The documents—detaili (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."
