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Germany to consider taking in Guantanamo detainees
German government spokesperson Thomas Steg said Monday that Germany would consider taking in detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison if US President-elect Barack Obama closed the facility. Steg said that Germany supports closure (More) |
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US defense secretary orders Pentagon plan for closing Guantanamo
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered the Pentagon to draft a proposal for shutting down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in preparation for a possible order from President-elect Barack Obama , a Pentagon spokesperson said Thursda (More) |
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Supreme Court remands torture lawsuit by ex-Guantanamo detainees
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded the case of Rasul v. Myers [docket; cert. petition, PDF] for further consideration in light of the Court's June decision in Boumedi (More) |
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Chertoff insists Obama must have plan before closing Guantanamo
US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on Sunday told the BBC that before closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , President-elect Barack Obama must have a plan for dealing with the detainees. In an appearance on The Andrew Marr (More) |
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US detainee abuses approved by senior officials: Senate report
US senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday released the executive summary [text, PDF; press release] of a Senate Armed Services Committee report that says senior US officials are to blame for the use of abusive interrogation (More) |
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Portugal foreign minister urges EU members to accept Guantanamo detainees
Portuguese Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Luis Amado on Wednesday sent a letter to European Union (EU) foreign ministers urging EU members to take in any detainees released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Amado said that Po (More) |
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Guantanamo judge delays Jawad military commission trial
The Guantanamo military commission trial of Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad that had been scheduled to start in early January was delayed indefinitely Wednesday by order of a military judge. US Army Col. Stephen Henley postponed the proceeding to g (More) |
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ACLU protests censorship of Guantanamo detainee testimony
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sought to prohibit government censorship of prisoners' testimony about alleged torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay in a motion filed Friday in military commission proceedings against five "high v (More) |
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Second Circuit rules embassy bombings suspect may be resentenced for terrorism
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a suspected Osama bin Laden associate, imprisoned for 32 years after stabbing a prison guard while in custody, may be resentenced according to heightened standards for acts of terro (More) |
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Spain aided US rendition flights: report
The Spanish Foreign Ministry expressly allowed the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use Spanish resources in transporting terror suspects to Guantanamo Bay, according to a 2002 internal Foreign Ministry memorandum released by Madrid's (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.
