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Australian immigration reform prompts detainees to attempt suicide, woundings
Thirteen refugees being held in immigration detention centers in Australia inflicted wounds upon themselves Saturday, protesting recent reforms in Australia's immigration policies that stop short of freeing all "unauthorised arrivals" (More) |
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US military policeman sues Pentagon for beating by comrades during Gitmo training
Spc. Sean Baker, an ex-US military policeman, has sued the Pentagon alleging that his constitutional rights were violated during an assault by fellow soldiers in a January 2003 training session that went awry in Guantanamo Bay. Baker voluntarily dr (More) |
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Meltdown at the Milosevic Trial: A Much Delayed Rush to Judgment
JURIST Guest Columnist William Schabas says that the seemingly-interminable trial of Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague is a poor model for international justice, and in the long run may not serve the purpose for which it was undertaken... The trial o (More) |
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International brief ~ Zimbabwe evictions appealed to African human rights body
Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have filed an official appeal with the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights , the regional human rights body in Africa, to intervene in the continuing mas (More) |
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Rumsfeld defends prisoner treatment, says no reason to close Guantanamo Bay
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference Tuesday that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay were well-treated and that there was no reason t (More) |
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Lawyers claim juveniles still being held at Guantanamo
Lawyers for detainees being held at Guantanamo say as many as six of those being held were captured before they turned 18 . One lawyer says his client was not even 15 when captured, and was physically abused. According to the military, only three j (More) |
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Saudi Arabian prisoners complain of abuse
The Executive Director of Saudi Arabia's recently-formed National Human Rights Association (NHRA) said Thursday that the commission has received over 2000 valid complaints, roughly a third of which concerned prison abuse in the country. Dr. Lub (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Pentagon details disrepectful acts involving Koran at Gitmo
AP is reporting that the Pentagon has confirmed that a US soldier at the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay kicked a detainee's Koran and that a guard's urine was splashed on the Islamic sacred text.8:35 PM ET - These instances and seve (More) |
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US and Iraqi forces urged to respect rights in new anti-insurgency raids
In the wake of the latest campaign to track down insurgents in Baghdad, human rights groups have called on Iraqi and US forces to respect humanitarian law when raiding houses in search of suspects. The campaign, announced on May 26 and termed Operat (More) |
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Non-sense: France's No to the European Constitution
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a native of Aix-en-Provence who returned to France to vote in its referendum on the European Constitution, says tha (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
