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US military tribunal sentences Guantanamo prisoner to 14 years
A US military tribunal on Friday sentenced Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed to 14 years in prison following a plea agreement in which he admitted to helping al Qaeda and providing material support to terrorism. Mohammed admit (More) |
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Federal appeals court overturns Guantanamo detainee release order
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday overturned a lower court's decision to grant habeas corpus to Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Saeed Hatim, blocking his release. In a per curiam opinion, the judges stated tha (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee pleads guilty to terror charges before military tribunal
Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed pleaded guilty before a military tribunal Tuesday to terrorism charges. Mohammed entered guilty pleas to one count of providing material support of terrorism and one count of conspiracy. The (More) |
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Rights group chides prolonged detention of UK man in Guantanamo
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday denounced the detention of British resident Shaker Aamer at Guantanamo Bay , calling it a "mockery of justice". Aamer has been held by the US since 2002 on claims that he was fighting with the Taliban. This wee (More) |
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Federal judge upholds detention of Yemeni at Guantanamo
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the detention of Mashur Al Sabri , a Saudi-born Yemeni citizen who was captured between Afghanistan and Pakistan and detained as an enemy combatant in December 2002. Sabri is currently 32 years old and has been hel (More) |
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Rights group claims Guantanamo detainee death shows failure of detention system
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Thursday used the death of a Guantanamo detainee to highlight what it claims are problems with the detention system currently used by the US for dealing with suspected terrorists. The detainee, Awal G (More) |
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Supreme Court declines to rule on DC same-sex marriage, Guantanamo habeas cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] declined Tuesday to rule on a DC same-sex marriage referendum and a Guantanamo detainee appeal but granted certiorari in a consolidated case involving Medicaid reimbursement rates. In Jac (More) |
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Rights group warns Australia detainee transfer program may violate international law
Australia's new Afghan detainee transfer policy may violate international human rights laws , Amnesty International (AI) warned Tuesday. The new detainee management system, announced Tuesday by Australian Minister of Defence Stephen Smith , provid (More) |
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Where is the Battlefield in the 'War on Terror'? The Need for a Workable Framework
JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie R. Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic says that defining where the so-called "war on terror" is being fought is an important task, and that while traditional frameworks fail to give adequate guida (More) |
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No Space for Democracy and Rule of Law: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saroop Ijaz, an advocate before the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, says that if Pakistan is to function as a democracy and - equally significantly - to address the threat of extremism both at home and abroad, its blasph (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.
