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Red Army Faction leader's release shows terrorists should be treated as simple criminals
Richard Huffman [creator of Baader-Meinhoff.com and author of The Gun Speaks]: "Christian Klar, leader of the notorious Red Army Faction, the leftist terrorist group that waged war on Germany from 1970 through the early 1990s, was released from (More) |
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Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that as US federal courts begin to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to render justice to Guantanamo detainees whose legal process has been too long delayed, the (More) |
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Australia police to lift control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced Thursday that they will lift restrictions on former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . The announcement came after Hicks issued a plea by posting a video on the website of Australian adv (More) |
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DOJ seeks modification of Guantanamo appeals rules
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a government motion asking a federal judge to review the procedure for handling appeals by detainees being held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay . The DOJ claims that the current rules (More) |
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US military prosecutors filing new charges against so-called '20th hijacker'
US Army prosecutors said Wednesday they would be filing new charges against Mohammad al-Qahtani , a Saudi Arabian citizen being held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Al-Qahtani is known as the "20th hijacker" for his alleged r (More) |
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US Navy defense lawyer allowed access to restricted Guantanamo camp
Navy defense attorney Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier was given rare access [Miami Herald report] on Wednesday to Camp Seven [Miami Herald backgrounder], a special Guantanamo camp for alleged al Qaeda members classified as "high-value detainees&qu (More) |
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Obama picks former Clinton impeachment lawyer to be White House counsel
US president-elect Barack Obama has reportedly selected [Washington Post report] Gregory Craig to serve as White House counsel. Craig, who was an adviser to Obama during the presidential campaign, led former President Bill Clinton's defense du (More) |
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Rights group urges Obama to denounce 'abusive' counterterrorism policies
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that upon inauguration US president-elect Barack Obama should immediately denounce the previous administration's "abusive" counterterrorism policies in order to bring US practices into accordance (More) |
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US admits more juveniles held at Guantanamo
A spokesperson for the Pentagon acknowledged on Sunday while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the US held 12 juveniles at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The announcement came in response to a study released last we (More) |
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Morocco court convicts ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee on terrorism charges
A Moroccan criminal court on Thursday convicted Moroccan citizen Said Boujandia of crimes associated with terrorist acts. The Sale Criminal Court sentenced Boujandia to 10 years in a Moroccan prison. Boujandia admitted his association with with a t (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.
