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Guantanamo Suicides and the Loss of American Legitimacy
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the recent suicides of three prisoners at Guantanamo Bay graphically represent and reinforce America (More) |
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France PM says legal rules must be respected in fighting terror
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin offered an implied criticism of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in a speech to the Institute of Higher Studies of National Defense Friday in which he said efforts to fight terrorism must always be (More) |
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Attorneys for Hamandiya Marines allege coercion in probe
Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the (More) |
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Marine lawyers to question videotape evidence at center of Haditha allegations
Defense lawyers for the US Marines accused of killing 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha last November plan to scrutinize the authenticity of the videotape described in the TIME magazine report that first prompted an investigation into the deaths, s (More) |
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UK willing to incarcerate Taylor if ex-leader convicted of war crimes charges
UK Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett said Thursday that Britain will take custody of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] if he is convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone , as long as authorizing legis (More) |
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No Place for War Crimes: Redrafting the US Army Interrogation Manual
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that the new US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation now being drafted should drop sections that would perpetuate unlawful treatment and illegally differentia (More) |
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ICC prosecutor reports evidence of mass killings in Darfur as crimes probe continues
Luis Moreno Ocampo , chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court , told the UN Security Council Wednesday that his investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur has documented thousands of killings of civilians, large scale massacre (More) |
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UN rights commissioner to establish independent probe of East Timor violence
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council Tuesday that he has asked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish an independent commission that will investigate the recent surge in violence in East Timor . "The (More) |
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Federal judge dismisses suit challenging 'In God We Trust' on US currency
US District Judge Frank Damrell of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a lawsuit brought by atheist Michael Newdow against the US government, arguing that the words "In God We Trust" on US currency vio (More) |
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Guantanamo and Medical Ethics
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the recent hunger strike and now suicides by prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay h (More) |
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