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US under Bush has 'abandoned the basic principles of human rights': Carter
Former US President Jimmy Carter [official profile; JURIST news archive] said Wednesday that under the Bush administration the United States "for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned the basic principles of human rights". He told CN (More) |
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Saudi Arabia frees Guantanamo transferees for Eid holiday
Saudi Arabian Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz announced Saturday that 55 Saudi prisoners recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay back to their home country will be given a temporary release and stipend of $2,600 to celebrate the Mus (More) |
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Second US Army officer asserts bias in Guantanamo detainee tribunals
A second US Army officer who sat on Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) at Guantanamo Bay has made an affidavit criticizing the panels for being inconsistent and biased towards the government. Attorneys for Adel Hassan Hamad [IHT profile; JU (More) |
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Federal judge reinstates Gitmo habeas petitions, restoring detainee access to lawyers
A federal judge Friday overturned his previous ruling dismissing 16 lawsuits challenging the indefinite detention of about 40 terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay , in the process avoiding new limitations on lawyers' access to their clien (More) |
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Doctors in the Death Chamber: Where Ethics and the State Collide
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the ethical dilemma posed by the continuing involvement of the medical profession in stat (More) |
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DOD allows 'high value' Guantanamo detainees to request lawyers
The US Department of Defense has formally allowed fourteen "high-value" terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay the right to request lawyers, the Washington Post reported Friday. The move could pave the way for the "high-value" (More) |
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Mugabe blasts US human rights record
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe devoted much of his address to the 62nd UN General Assembly on Wednesday to attacking the human rights record of US President George W. Bush. Mugabe was responding to Bush's address , where Bush called Mugabe (More) |
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DOD releases redacted version of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Gitmo testimony
The US Department of Defense released censored audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Thursday after months of controversy. The recording eliminated 10 of (More) |
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Former UK Guantanamo detainee to sue UK intelligence services over torture
Former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Tarek Dergoul is suing the UK's MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) intelligence services over complicity with Dergoul's alleged torture, according to a Wednesday report in the Guardian. Dergoul allege (More) |
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Guantanamo tent complex under construction for trials
The US government has begun setting up a "tent city" at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, where the US military plans to hold military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, officials said Thursday. The military believes trib (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.
