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McCain Undermined: The 'Obedience to Orders' Defense
JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the McCain Amendment on the treatment of deta (More) |
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Cheney says domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11
US Vice President Dick Cheney offered a forceful defense of the NSA warrantless surveillance program in use since the September 11 terrorist attacks in an address to a Heritage Foundation audience in Washington Wednesday. Cheney said the wiretaps (More) |
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Turkey charges journalists, rights workers with aiding Kurd separatists
Turkish state prosecutors charged nine journalists and human rights activists with promoting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) [advocacy website; FAS profile] Monday. According to the indictment, the defendants used a Reuters reporter's observat (More) |
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Bolton pledges renewed effort in negotiations on new UN rights panel
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has promised to push for major changes in the United Nations in an interview published Monday in the Washington Post, including reforms to the international body's human rights panel. Bolton said he will work (More) |
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Iraq abuse probes prompt British concern about Army's reputation
Senior officers in the British Army have been briefed on protecting the reputation of the armed services in the midst of close judicial scrutiny of soldiers' conduct in Iraq, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper Friday. The British m (More) |
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Uzbek court sentences police, soldiers, doctors for negligence in Andijan uprising
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, soldiers, and prison doctors to jail terms ranging from 1.5 to 11 years for their complicity in the May uprising in Andijan [JURIST news archive; HRW backgrounder] when thousands o (More) |
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First Afghan war crimes trial targets Communist-era intelligence chief
The first war crimes trial in the history of Afghanistan began Monday in Kabul as a former Afghan intelligence chief faced charges of authorizing the arrest, torture, and mass killings of hundreds of opponents of the country's Communist governme (More) |
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French judge to probe role of French troops in Rwanda genocide
French Judge Brigitte Raynaud has decided to open a formal investigation into accusations that French soldiers may have acted in complicity with Hutu militias who killed between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Several R (More) |
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UN rights chief cautions Uzbek government on latest Andijan trials
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has again cautioned the Uzbekistan government to observe fair-trial standards after Uzbek courts sentenced another 42 people to 12-20 years in prison during closed hearings Wednesday. Arbour, co (More) |
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Court rules UK rights law bars UK troops from abusing Iraqi prisoners
A British appellate court has ruled [opinion summary; full text] Thursday that British soldiers in Iraq are forbidden to subject Iraqi prisoners to cruel or degrading treatment while in their custody. The determination that the Human Rights Act - (More) |
Sherman Antitrust Act passed by Congress
On July 2, 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act became the first anti-monopoly legislation passed by Congress.
Learn more about the Sherman Act.
