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Military judge grants government motion to delay Guantanamo case
A US military judge on Tuesday granted a government motion to postpone hearings for Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi . Chief judge for military commissions Colonel James Pohl granted the government's motion for (More) |
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Senate passes amendment delaying Guantanamo closure funds
Members of the US Senate on Tuesday voted 90-6 to approve an amendment eliminating $80 million from pending legislation intended to fund the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Introduced by Senate Appropriations Committee chairman (More) |
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Federal judge rejects new government standard for Guantanamo reviews
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday on the limits of detaining terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay who are not actual members of terrorist groups under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military F (More) |
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'Change' at Guantanamo: Reality or Illusion?
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that President Obama's recent announcement that his administration will reform rather than abolish the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay threatens to undercu (More) |
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US releases Guantanamo detainee Boumediene to France
US officials said Friday that Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has been released and sent to France . Boumediene was the named plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush [opinion, PDF; JURIST report], in which the (More) |
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UN rights chief urges US to hold Bush-era officials accountable for 'torture'
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US Wednesday to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration. Pillay welcomed the US as a new member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and laud (More) |
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Rights groups decry Obama military commissions revival plan
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday harshly criticized the Obama administration's reported consideration of reviving the military commissions system to try Guantanamo Bay detainees . ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero ca (More) |
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US judge rejects delay of first military commission hearing since suspension order
Military judge Colonel James Pohl has rejected a motion to delay a military commission hearing for Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi , according to a Sunday report by the Miami Herald. The hearing, scheduled for May (More) |
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Lawyers who authorized torture 'disgraced profession': JFK counsel Sorensen
Ted Sorensen, former special counsel to US President John F. Kennedy, said in a commencement address [Lincoln Journal Star report] at the University of Nebraska College of Law Saturday that lawyers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) who authoriz (More) |
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Canada government to appeal ruling mandating efforts to repatriate Khadr
An official for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Friday confirmed the government’s intention to appeal a Federal Court ruling [text; JURIST report] directing the government to firmly push for the repatriation of Canadian Guantanamo (More) |
Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed
On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the U.N. Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime.
175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the U.S. Psychotropic Substances Act, the U.K. Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Substances Act.
