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Afghanistan parliament refuses to reinstate high court chief justice
The parliament of Afghanistan on Saturday voted against reappointing Chief Justice Fazel Hadi Shinwari to continue his lead post on the Afghanistan Supreme Court . Afghan President Hamid Karzai had recommended Shinwari to remain as chief justice o (More) |
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Afghan rights commission says 34 civilians killed in US airstrike
A spokesman for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kandahar said Friday that some 34 Afghan civilians were killed in a US airstrike on a village in the south of the country earlier this week along with about 35 "unknown peo (More) |
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Fourth Circuit hears reversal arguments in 'Virginia Jihad network' case
A three-judge panel of the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard defense arguments in the appeal of three guilty bench verdicts handed down in 2004 to three US Muslims in the 'Virginia Jihad network' case . Masoud Khan was convicted of (More) |
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Australia High Court justice calls Guantanamo a legal black hole
The US detention center in Guantanamo Bay is a legal black hole, an Australian High Court judge has said. Justice Michael Kirby made the statement Monday in a speech to the Sydney Peace Foundation . David Hicks , an Australian who is awaiting tri (More) |
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Five former Guantanamo detainees found not guilty in Kuwait
A group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees were found not guilty by a Kuwaiti court Sunday of belonging to al Qaeda and fighting a friendly state. The five detainees, arrested in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, were released from Guantanamo in Novemb (More) |
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Bad Politics, Worse Law: Re-writing the UK Human Rights Act
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that the UK government's push to limit the application of the Human Rights Act in matters of public safety is politically (More) |
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Russia jails two ex-Guantanamo detainees for 2005 pipeline attack
A Russian court in Tatarstan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees and another man to between 11 and 15 years in prison for their involvement in a January 2005 gas pipeline explosion on the Volga River. The three had been acquitted (More) |
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Afghan parliament descends into chaos as lawmakers attack female legislator
The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called several of the country's mujahedeen leaders criminals unfit for publi (More) |
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Released Guantanamo Kuwaitis maintain innocence, oppose use of US evidence
Lawyers for five Kuwaitis formerly detained at Guantanamo told a Kuwait criminal court Sunday that the Kuwaiti courts lack any foundation for convicting their clients of having links with al Qaeda . Their lawyers questioned the court’s juri (More) |
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US journalist convicted of torture in Afghanistan released from prison
US journalist Edward Caraballo, one of three US citizens jailed in 2004 on charges of running a private jail and torturing eight Afghan men, was released Sunday from Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison by presidential decree. Caraballo, former US Green (More) |
President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act
On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.
Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.
