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New York City subway bomb plotter found guilty
A jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday convicted naturalized American citizen Adis Medunjanin for his role in a conspiracy to bomb the New York City subway system in September 2009. Medunjanin, a Bosnian imm (More) |
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Double Standards in the War on Terror
JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the Barry University School of Law says that the double standard concerning the killing of US citizens developed as a result of overseas anti-terrorism efforts and is more recently apparent in the domestic "stand (More) |
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HRW urges Afghanistan to release women and girls jailed for 'moral crimes'
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the Afghan government to release women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for "moral crimes" , many of which involve flight from unlawful forced marriage or domestic violence and "zina," which is sex (More) |
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Changing the Legal Paradigm of Liberation-Occupation
JURIST Contributing Editor Chibli Mallat of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that there is no true legal distinction between liberators and occupiers, and that because it does not look like there will be a treaty to distinguish t (More) |
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Five Guantanamo detainees agree to Qatar transfer
Five detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility agreed to be transferred to Qatar, a spokesperson for Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official profile; JURIST news archive] announced Saturday. The detainees, who are associated with the Tali (More) |
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Holder frames US policy toward targeted killings of US citizens
US Attorney General Eric Holder , in a speech Monday, framed the Obama administration's policy toward the targeted killing of US citizens abroad who are members of al Qaeda . Holder's comments also addressed the success of the federal courts and r (More) |
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US Targeted Killing Policy Unjustified
JURIST Contributing Editor Gabor Rona, International Legal Director of Human Rights First, argues that the decision to use the legal classification of "enemy combatant" does not justify the US policy of targeted killings... (More) |
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Teaching Morality: Haditha and the Future of the US Military
JURIST Contributing Editor Amos Guiora of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that the lack of serious punishment for US troops involved in the 2005 killing of 24 innocent Iraqi civilians at Haditha requires immediate and constant t (More) |
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Italy must end violence against women: UN
A UN expert on violence against women urged [press release; official statement] Italy on Friday that it must do more to end violence against women, primarily by focusing at underlying causes of gender discrimination in Italian society. UN Special Ra (More) |
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Afghanistan commission calls for detainee custody transfer, alleges US abuse
An investigative commission in Afghanistan issued a statement on Saturday alleging the abuse of prisoners held by the US military at prisons in their country. The commission called for the transfer of all prisoners held by the US military to Afghan (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
