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Doctors attack 'unethical' medical practices at Guantanamo Bay
Doctors from 16 countries have chided the US military for its medical care of detainees at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba in a letter Friday to the UK medical journal The Lancet . Referring to the US policy of force-feeding detain (More) |
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US transfers 16 Saudi detainees from Guantanamo Bay
The US Department of Defense said Thursday that 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to their home country of Saudi Arabia . Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz welcomed the release of detainees, and said he was hope (More) |
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Tunisia abusing ex-Guantanamo detainees despite promising humane treatment: HRW
Tunisian officials have been mistreating and abusing two former Guantanamo Bay detainees since their release from the US prison facility in June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Wednesday. The report alleges that the two men, wh (More) |
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Guantanamo 'mass disturbances' up sharply in 2007: US military report
A new one-page US military report obtained by the Associated Press shows that despite a decline in the number of prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , "mass disturbances" by inmates have risen substantially thusfar i (More) |
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US psychologists reject bar on participation in military interrogations
The American Psychological Association (APA) voted Sunday against a measure that would have prevented its members from participating in the interrogations of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay and other military prisons where suspects have been tor (More) |
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Tajikistan high court sentences ex-Guantanamo detainees
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees to 17 years in prison each for serving as mercenaries in Afghanistan. Mukit Vokhidov and Rukhiddin Sharopov crossed to Afghanistan in 2001 as members of the al Qaed (More) |
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Six more detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay
Six more detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay , the US Defense Department said Thursday. According to the DOD announcement , five detainees were transferred to Afghanistan and one was transferred to Bahrain [Reuters report; BNA report (More) |
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DOD says 14 'high-value' Guantanamo detainees are 'enemy combatants'
The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Thursday that 14 "high-value" detainees have been designated as enemy combatants based on the recommendations of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) . The detainees, including the alleged mast (More) |
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Two alleged CIA rendition victims join ACLU lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary
Two men who allege that the CIA detained and tortured them in foreign prisons Wednesday joined a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan . Iraqi citizen Bisher al-Rawi a (More) |
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Australia lawyers group says Hicks military commission trial 'a charade'
The Law Council of Australia, the country's national organization for lawyers, on Tuesday issued harsh criticism of the trial of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [Law Council backgrounder; JURIST news archive], saying the trial was &q (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.
