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Guantanamo detainee transfers put US in tight spot
Ashley Deeks [International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies]: "Last week the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi, a former Guantanamo d (More) |
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Australia military probe clears soldiers of Afghan 'mistreatment'
An internal military probe Monday cleared members of the Australian Defence Force of allegations that they mistreated four Taliban members detained following the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan last November. The investigation also c (More) |
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Afghan detainees in Kandahar prison end hunger strike over lack of legal process
An estimated 200-300 detainees held by Afghan authorities at the Afghan-controlled men's prison in Kandahar who went on hunger strike last week protesting the slow nature of the Afghanistan judicial system ended their action Monday after a visi (More) |
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US military judge refuses to set Khadr trial date pending Guantanamo records release
US military judge Col. Peter Brownback again refused to set a trial date for Canadian-born Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] at a pre-trial hearing Thursday, threatening to suspend military commission proceedings against the Guantanamo (More) |
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Australia military investigating Taliban detainee 'mistreatment' claims
The Australian Defence Force is investigating claims by four Taliban members detained following the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan that they were mistreated during their time in custody, Australian media reported Thursday. The allega (More) |
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Prosecute the Lawyers Too
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says in this excerpt from her recent testimony to the US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties that not only the high (More) |
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US military judge rules Khadr not a child soldier
A US military judge Wednesday rejected arguments that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for his trial (More) |
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UK High Court rules terror suspect asset freeze orders unlawful
The High Court in London ruled Thursday that the British Treasury Department may not freeze the assets of suspected terrorists without going through Parliament first. Five UK terror suspects who had their assets frozen pursuant to two Orders in C (More) |
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Fourth Amendment rights curtailed by Bush administration...but to what extent?
Daniel M. Smith [Colonel, USA (Ret.); Senior Fellow for Military Affairs, Friends Committee on National Legislation]: "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of thos (More) |
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'Chemical Ali' hospitalized in Iraq following hunger strike
Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," was admitted to a US medical facility in Iraq on Sunday, the US military said Monday. Al-Majid had reportedly been on a hunger str (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
