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Saddam Hussein hanging documented on video
Video and pictures released by Iraqi state television Saturday confirmed the execution of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive; BBC obituary] which took place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET) at an Iraqi facility nicknamed Camp Jus (More) |
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US releases 17 more Guantanamo detainees
The US Department of Defense announced Sunday that it has transferred 17 more Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the number of detainees released from Guantanamo this year to 114. Seven of the newly (More) |
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Yemen court bans two journalists for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
A court in Yemen Wednesday prohibited the editor of Yemen's al-Hurriya newspaper and one of its reporters from writing for one month and also imposed a four-month suspended sentence on them for demeaning Islam by reprinting cartoons depicting th (More) |
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Second Yemen newspaper editor convicted for printing Muhammad cartoons
A court in Yemen on Wednesday found Mohammad al-Assadi guilty of denigrating Islam and fined him 500,000 rials ($2,541) for republishing offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad earlier this year. Al-Assadi, editor of the Yemen Observer , (More) |
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Yemen editor convicted for printing Muhammad cartoons
A Yemeni court has convicted Kamal al-Aalafi, editor-in-chief of the al-Rai al-Aam newspaper, and sentenced him to one year in jail for violating Article 103 of the Press and Publications Law of 1990 as punishment for publishing offensive cartoons (More) |
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Hamdan Navy lawyer denied promotion, will leave US military
The US Navy lawyer who successfully represented the plaintiff Guantanamo detainee in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court has been denied a promotion and will leave the military by spring, the Miami Herald report (More) |
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Hicks in poor health at Guantanamo after five months solitary: lawyer
Australian detainee David Hicks has been kept in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay for about five months and his health is deteriorating, Hicks' US military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Wednesday. Mori insisted that Hicks is among the (More) |
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Hicks legal papers among those seized by US in Guantanamo suicides probes
Legal papers belonging to Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks were among those seized by US investigators in a probe into the June suicides of three other Guantanamo inmates - a Yemeni and two Saudis - at the US military prison in June, ac (More) |
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Hamdan military commissions ruling [US SC]
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Stevens:Petitioner Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni national, is in custody at an American prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In November 2001, durin (More) |
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Father of Guantanamo suicide victim demands international probe
The father of Salah al-Aslami, a Yemeni national who committed suicide with two Saudi Arabian detainees at Guantanamo Bay on June 10, has refused to receive al-Aslami's body until international authorities launch an investigation into the thre (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
