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Guantanamo detainees seeking UK asylum would face uncertain future under current law
Liz Griffith [Policy Officer, Law Centre (NI), Belfast, Northern Ireland]: "President-elect Obama's apparent decision to close Guantanamo has received wide support in the UK government. Nine UK nationals were returned to the UK in 2004 and 2 (More) |
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Obama must not allow Bagram prison to remain an Afghan version of Guantanamo
Sahr MuhammedAlly [Senior Associate, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First]: "On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will inherit the responsibility for thousands of detainees being held by the United States in Afghanistan, Guantan (More) |
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Amnesty International's criticism of Israeli action in Gaza distorts the law of war
Marc D. Stern [Acting Co-Executive Director/General Counsel, American Jewish Congress]: "Amnesty International reads the law of war as if it was a law banning war. In evaluating Amnesty's criticisms of Israel's actions in Gaza, one needs (More) |
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Pakistan arrests former Taliban spokesperson
Pakistani officials Saturday announced the re-capture of high-level Taliban operative Ustad Mohammed Yasir in the northern city of Peshawar near the Afghan border. Yasir served as senior aide and spokesman to Taliban leader Mullah Omar . He was firs (More) |
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Federal judge denies release to Yemeni and Tunisian Guantanamo detainees
Judge Richard Leon for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US government could continue to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees Hisham Sliti and Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi . Both men had filed habeas corpus petiti (More) |
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Establishing an International Tribunal for the Mumbai Terror Suspects
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that an international tribunal should be formed to prosecute persons involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks in order to avoid the politically unworkable alternatives of r (More) |
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US detainee abuses approved by senior officials: Senate report
US senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday released the executive summary [text, PDF; press release] of a Senate Armed Services Committee report that says senior US officials are to blame for the use of abusive interrogation (More) |
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Federal judge rules Lindh commutation petition exempt from FOIA disclosure
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday held in Associated Press v. United States Department of Justice that the petition for commuted sentence of charged Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh falls under invasion-of-privacy except (More) |
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Federal judge refuses to stop Khadr military commission trial
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied [opinion, PDF; order, PDF] a motion by Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] seeking to have the military commission tria (More) |
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Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that as US federal courts begin to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to render justice to Guantanamo detainees whose legal process has been too long delayed, the (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.
