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US transfers 16 Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabian custody
The US Defense Department announced Monday that 16 detainees have been transferred to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay Monday, bringing the total of repatriated Saudi detainees up to 77. The 16 will remain in custody pending Saudi investigations i (More) |
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Guantanamo tribunal officer says CSRTs pressured on 'enemy combatant' rulings
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay were pressured to declare detainees "enemy combatants" based on vague or incomplete evidence, according to a Friday affidavit filed with a DC appeals court by a US army offic (More) |
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UK Attorney General Goldsmith to resign
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith [official website; Guardian profile] announced Friday that he will resign his post effective next week. Goldsmith, who leaves just as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years as Prime Minister, said that he has wanted (More) |
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Afghan terror suspect transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison
A terror suspect believed to be associated with senior al Qaeda leaders and related terrorist groups in Afghanistan was transferred to Guantanamo Bay Friday. The US Department of Defense (DOD) says that Haroon al-Afghani has admitted to serving a (More) |
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White House denies imminent Guantanamo closure
The White House Friday denied a Thursday AP report that officials are nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, saying that, although there is a general desire to eventually close the facility, "nothing is imminent" (More) |
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Six detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay
The US Department of Defense announced Tuesday that six detainees have been transferred from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and into the custody of other home countries. Two of the transfers were to Tunisia and the four other detainees were (More) |
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Canada 'abandoned' Khadr in Guantanamo: Amnesty International
Amnesty International accused the government of Canada of having "abandoned" its citizen in Guantanamo Bay in an open letter Thursday to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The letter urged Harper to press the US for the repatriation of Oma (More) |
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Nuremberg trials prosecutor slams Guantanamo military commissions
A US Nuremberg trials prosecutor denounced the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay in an interview with Reuters published Monday. Henry King Jr. , now in his 80s but still a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, said th (More) |
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Pentagon seeking reconsideration of Guantanamo dismissals
A Pentagon spokesman said Friday that the it will seek a reconsideration of rulings by two US military judges earlier this week dismissing all charges against Canadian detainee Omar Khadr and Yemeni detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan . Both judges found th (More) |
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Senate committee supports restoring habeas rights to Guantanamo detainees
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday voted 11-8 in support of a measure that would return habeas corpus rights to terror suspects imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 , sponsored by Sen. (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.
