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US military judge denies defense motions in 9/11, USS Cole trials
The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday denied defense motions filed in both the 9/11 military commission trial and the 2000 USS Cole bombing trial. Defense counsel for accused 9/11 conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (More) |
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In Cuba: Justice in Gitmo and Across the Fence
JURIST Guest Columnist Kathleen Doty of the American Society of International Law argues that justice has not been best served in Guantanamo Bay military trials... (More) |
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Saudi student sentenced to life for US bomb plot
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas sentenced a former Texas college student from Saudi Arabia to life in prison on Tuesday for trying to make a bomb for use in a jihad. One of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsar's possible targ (More) |
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Accused USS Cole bomber boycotts pretrial hearing
Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday boycotted his pretrial hearing at the facility. Al-Nashiri is accused of bombing the USS Cole while it was in port in Yemen in October 2000. Al-Nashiri o (More) |
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Military Commissions: A Failed Experiment
JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the recent reversal of Salim Hamdan's conviction presents an opportunity to rethink the wisdom of using military commissions to try individuals accused of acts (More) |
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Military judge denies motion to allow television broadcast of Guantanamo trial
A military judge ruled Monday that he lacks authority to allow media to broadcast the trial of accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim Nashiri [NYT profile; JURIST news archive]. Al-Nashiri's defense lawyers moved in July for the trial to be televis (More) |
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ECHR urged to review claims of CIA secret prison in Romania
The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) announced Monday that it urged the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to review allegations that Romania was involved in the torture and other ill-treatment of a Saudi Arabian currently facing a deat (More) |
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Lawyers for alleged USS Cole bomber ask for tribunal to be televised
Defense lawyers for the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing Abd al-Rahim Nashiri [NYT profile; JURIST news archive] requested on Thursday that Nashiri's trial at Guantanamo be televised. Richard Kammen, an attorney for Nashiri, declared that (More) |
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Defense lawyers request USS Cole trial be broadcast worldwide
Defense lawyers for the alleged architect of the USS Cole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile; JURIST news archive], on Friday requested that the court allow for worldwide broadcast of the Guantanamo trial, instead of limited broadcast in (More) |
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Federal judge denies FOIA request for Bin Laden photos
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday denied a request to release photos of Osama Bin Laden taken shortly after his death last year. Nonprofit organization Justice Watch filed a complaint against the Obama a (More) |
Tojo and other Japanese WWII leaders executed for war crimes
On December 23, 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed for war crimes in Tokyo.
Learn more about the Tokyo War Crimes Trials.
