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Hamdan found guilty by Guantanamo military commission jury
The jury in the military commission trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] found Hamdan guilty on Wednesday of providing material support for terrorism, marking the first verdict rendered by a military commission trial at G (More) |
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Khadr lawyer moves for dismissal due to government misconduct
Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive], said on Monday that he has filed three separate motions to dismiss the case against his client due to alleged government miscond (More) |
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US military reports over 10,000 Iraq detainees released so far in 2008
The US military said Saturday that it has released over 10,000 Iraqi detainees this past year. Gen. David H. Petraeus was quoted by AP as saying the releases are part of a program to prepare detainees for re-integration into society. Petraeus also (More) |
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Report from Guantánamo: Hamdan trial is a false and unnecessary experiment
Aaron Zisser [Human Rights Fellow, Human Rights First]: "The first week of the first trial at Guantánamo Bay did not seem, at first glance, particularly extraordinary. True, there were some obvious differences between civilian courts and (More) |
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Report from Guantánamo: The US Constitution is on trial
Frank Kendall [volunteer consultant, Human Rights First]: "From July 14 to July 18, I attended several pre-trial motions hearings in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for Salim Hamdan , who is now in his second week of trial before a Military Commiss (More) |
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UK Commons report casts doubt on US denial of torture techniques
The Human Rights Annual Report 2007 released Sunday by the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee recommended that the UK not rely on any assurances made by the US that it does not use torture. The report also calls on the UK to fully inve (More) |
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Federal appeals court upholds indefinite detention of US enemy combatants
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a per curiam opinion Tuesday, finding by a vote of 5-4 that if the government's allegations against Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri [NYT profile; Brennan Center case materials] (More) |
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Khadr Guantanamo interrogation video released
Lawyers for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] released an excerpt [video; transcript] Tuesday of a 2003 interrogation of Khadr conducted by Canadian officials, marking the first time Guantanamo interrogatio (More) |
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China executes two Uighur Muslims for alleged terror links
China executed two members of the Chinese Uighur Muslim ethnic minority last week, according to a report from US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) . According to the report , the two Uighurs, Mukhtar Setiwalki and Abduweli Imin, were executed after a pu (More) |
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Canada PM criticized for not intervening in Khadr case
Human rights groups and defense lawyers have criticized the refusal of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to interfere with US proceedings against Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] in light of document (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.
