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DOD transfers 11 more detainees from Guantanamo Bay
Eleven more detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay , the US Defense Department said Sunday. According to the DOD announcement, eight detainees were transferred to Afghanistan and three were transferred to Jordan. The names of the eleven (More) |
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Politics at Guantanamo: The Former Chief Prosecutor Speaks
JURIST Guest Columnist Marc Falkoff of Northern Illinois University College of Law says the recent resignation of Guantanamo chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis and his remarkable public conversion from champion of the military commissions to (More) |
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Outspoken US Marines defense lawyer resigning, labeling Guantanamo justice 'horrific'
Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, the outspoken US Marine Corps chief defense lawyer for the western US, is resigning from his post effective May 1, 2008, calling the military legal system at Guantanamo Bay "horrific" and a "sham" and urging (More) |
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UN rights expert urges US to prosecute or release Guantanamo prisoners
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin called on the US in a report released Monday to quickly prosecute or release terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay so that the US can close the detention center. Sche (More) |
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Tunisia court convicts former Guantanamo Bay detainee on terror charges
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee was convicted by a Tunisian court Wednesday on criminal association charges and will serve three years in prison. The convict, Lotfi Lagha, had been charged with associating with a criminal group with the aim of harm (More) |
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Australia foreign minister denies interference with Hicks plea bargain
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Tuesday denied allegations that the Australian government was involved in negotiating the plea bargain of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , refuting a report in Harper's Magazine that th (More) |
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Australia police to seek control order against ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) plan to subject former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks to a control order that would restrict his movements and communications as well as require him to check in with police once every year, according to Mond (More) |
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DOJ urges court to dismiss lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary for CIA rendition role
The US Department of Justice has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to dismiss a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan on the grounds that the case would disclose classified information regarding the Central Intelligen (More) |
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UK lawmakers investigating allegations of CIA prison on UK Indian Ocean island
UK lawmakers will investigate whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has secretly held terror suspects on a sovereign British territory in the Indian Ocean, the Guardian reported Friday. The House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee (More) |
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US military reviewing CSRT status hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees
The US military is reviewing its classification of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, according to the Associated Press Thursday. The review could allow for new hearings for inmates who were classified as "enemy combat (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.
