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Binyam Mohamed lawyer says torture details withheld from Obama
Information redacted from a British High Court decision [text, PDF; JURIST report] released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay (More) |
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DOJ urges court not to define 'enemy combatant'
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday to refrain from addressing the definition of an enemy combatant , an exercise which the DOJ argues could force the Court to unnecessarily decide the (More) |
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Europe must help US close Guantanamo: UK ex-AG Goldsmith
Former British attorney general Peter Goldsmith on Monday urged [Independent op-ed] the UK and other European states to create an "international coalition" to assist the US in closing the Guantanamo Bay detention (More) |
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Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surroundin (More) |
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Iraq official confirms Guantanamo prisoners transfer
A senior Iraqi official confirmed Monday that four Iraqi prisoners were released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison into Iraqi custody for further interrogation. The anonymous official also confirmed that only one Iraqi citizen remains a pris (More) |
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Military commissions overseer orders charges dropped in last Guantanamo trial
Convening authority of military commissions Susan Crawford [official profile, PDF; JURIST news archive] announced Thursday that the Pentagon has formally dropped charges against suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahimal al-Nashiri [DOD materials; JU (More) |
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China again calls for return of Uighur Guantanamo detainees
China reiterated its request Thursday that all Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, held at Guantanamo Bay be returned to China after the prison's closing. Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Jiang Yu said that China objects to other count (More) |
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UK foreign minister denies court claim that US threatened to withhold intelligence
UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband told members of Parliament Thursday that the US did not threaten to withhold intelligence if a summary of the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [Rep (More) |
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Military commissions review court grants government continuance in Jawad case
The US Court of Military Commission Review (USCMCR) on Wednesday granted a government request for a 120-day continuance on an intermediate appeal in its case against Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad [DOD materials; (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee resolution [European Parliament]
Resolution on the return and resettlement of the Guantanamo detention facility inmates, European Parliament, February 4, 2009, . Read the full text of the resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (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.
