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US Justice Department calls for Hamdan trial to begin on schedule
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday asked a judge at the US District Court for the District of Columbia to deny a motion by Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] to stay his trial, now scheduled t (More) |
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The US and the International Criminal Court Then and Now
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, reflects on the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of negotiations on the Rome Statute establishing (More) |
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Immunity for telecom companies protects Americans from terrorism
Charles Stimson [Senior Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation]: "One thing you don't hear a lot about is the practical side of telecom immunity. Think about all the government contractors contributing t (More) |
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Indicting Sudan's President for War Crimes: Could George Bush be Next?
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that even though the recent indictment of sitting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes (More) |
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ICC prosecutor files petition to lift stay on Lubanga trial
The Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed a petition Friday asking the ICC to lift an indefinite stay on the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; JURIST news archive]. The IC (More) |
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Massachusetts court denies same-sex couples retroactive benefits
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday in Charron v. Amaral that couples married after the court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage cannot make claims for benefits they would have received had they been allowed to marry (More) |
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Iraq detainees to get £2.8m settlement from UK Defence Ministry
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) reached a settlement Thursday with nine Iraqi men who say they were tortured while detained by British troops in Basra in 2003. A MOD spokesman said the military had agreed to pay £2.83 million in compensati (More) |
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Israel police unresponsive to violence against Palistinians: rights group
Israeli rights group Yesh Din published an update Tuesday to its 2006 report [text, PDF; summary, PDF] detailing the lack of investigations and prosecutions of Israeli settlers who commit crimes against Palestinians . According to the report, Isra (More) |
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ICC suspends release of Congo ex-militia leader Lubanga
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday granted [decision, PDF; press release] the suspensive effect of the prosecutors' appeal against the release of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; BBC profile]. The granting (More) |
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East Timor police use tear gas on students protesting government spending
A UN spokesperson said that East Timor police used teargas on a group of 200 students who were demonstrating before the National Parliament on Monday. Police reportedly used force against the students and arrested 21 protesters who disregarded pol (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
