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Australia officially rejects US request to accept Guantanamo detainees
Australian acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday officially announced Australia's rejection of a US request to accept foreign Guantanamo detainees. This was the second request by the Bush administration regarding Australia's accep (More) |
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Australia 'unlikely' to accept foreign Guantanamo detainees
Australian acting prime minister Julia Gillard on Friday said it was "unlikely" that the country would accept foreign detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but that her country was considering a second request to d (More) |
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UK preparing to take Guantanamo prisoners: report
The British government is willing to help the United States close the Guantanamo Bay military prison by accepting some released prisoners who have no previous connection to the UK, the Times reported Thursday. The paper quoted unnamed officials who (More) |
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Ireland open to accepting released Guantanamo detainees
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin has said that Ireland would likely accept detainees [Irish Examiner report] released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison if US President-elect Barack Obama closed the facility. In an interview (More) |
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Poland minister 'not eager' to accept Guantanamo detainees
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski expressed reservations Saturday over the prospect of accepting detainees released from Guantanamo Bay as part of a US strategy to close the prison. In an interview with the Dziennik daily, Sikorski ventured (More) |
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Australia to consider accepting released Guantanamo prisoners
A spokesman for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd [official website; BBC profile] said Saturday that Australia would be willing to consider acceptance of Guantanamo Bay detainees on a case-by-case basis, according to a report in The Australian. (More) |
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France urges unified EU stance on accepting Guantanamo detainees
The French Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the European Union (EU) to adopt a unified policy on whether to accept detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison if US President-elect Barack Obama closes the facility. The French gover (More) |
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Obama should close Guantanamo and resist calls for alternative detention system
Jennifer Turner [Human Rights Researcher, Human Rights Program, American Civil Liberties Union]: "On Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman revealed that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered aides to draw up plans for closing down the prison (More) |
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Rights group seeks military commissions stay for alleged 9/11 attackers
Human Rights First Monday filed an amicus curiae brief requesting a stay of military commission proceedings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the self-proclaimed architect (More) |
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Australia government lifts control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Australian authorities on Sunday removed the final restrictions against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks, who served more than five years in the military prison without a trial before pleading guilty to providing material support (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.
