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Prosecute Defendants, Not Their Counsel
JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce J. Einhorn of Pepperdine University School of Law says that provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 that would allow for special investigations of lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay deta (More) |
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UK panel to investigate torture allegations
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday that he will create a panel to investigate claims that British government agents were complicit in the torture of terrorism suspects held overseas. The inquiry comes after 12 ex-detainees brought civil c (More) |
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DC Circuit rules detainees denied habeas must be 'part of' terrorist group
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit released a redacted opinion Thursday holding that evidence against Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainee Belkacem Bensaya must be reviewed to determine if he was "part of" al Qaeda . The thr (More) |
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Federal judge rules former Guantanamo detainee fit to stand trial
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news archive] is not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and is therefore fit to stand trial. The issue of Ghailan (More) |
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Saudi Arabia official reports 25 recidivism cases among ex-Guantanamo inmates
A senior Saudi official said Saturday that 25 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have rejoined Islamic extremist groups after going through a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia aimed at decreasing religious radicalism within the country. Abdulrahm (More) |
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Federal judge orders ex-Guantanamo detainee subject to strip searches
A ruling was released Thursday by Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) denying a request from former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news archive] to be exem (More) |
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DC Circuit denies Guantanamo detainee habeas petition
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Guantanamo Bay detainee Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, allowing for continued incarceration of the Yemeni national by the U (More) |
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Rights group claims medical personnel aided CIA in interrogation experiments
Medical personnel present as part of the Bush administration's enhanced interrogations were collecting and analyzing data in order to develop more effective interrogation procedures, according to a report released Monday by the advocacy group (More) |
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The Bagram Detainee Review Boards: Better, But Still Falling Short
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Andrea Prasow, senior counter-terrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, says that while the new system of Detainee Review Boards at Bagram is a significant improvement over past US practice, the US and its coalition par (More) |
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Most Guantanamo detainees 'low-level' combatants: government report
A task force initiated by the US government to evaluate the status of Guantanamo Bay detainees has reported that only 10 percent of inmates were terrorist leaders when President Barack Obama took office in 2009. The Guantanamo Bay Task Force comp (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."
