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Military trials set for Canadian, Yemeni Guantanamo detainees
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that military commission trials for two foreign Guantanamo prisoners will begin with plea hearings on January 10 at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility without waiting for the US Supreme Court to decide the legality (More) |
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Yemen cleric faces execution for spying after appeal fails
A Yemeni appellate court Saturday upheld the capital sentence of a Shia cleric accused of spying for the Iranian government and for supporting an armed rebellion in northern Yemen last year. The case will now go to the Supreme Court of Yemen, whic (More) |
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Iraq arrests Saddam nephew on charges of financing insurgency
Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested a nephew of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit on charges that he has served as a leading financier of the country's insurgency, Iraqi security officials reported. Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim is the son of Saddam's half b (More) |
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Yemen court acquits Iraqis charged with embassy bomb plot
Yemeni Judge Mohammed Al Baadani on Monday acquitted four Iraqis who were accused of spying for the government of Saddam Hussein and planning to bomb the American and British embassies in Sanaa. The men were arrested in 2003 with bags of explosive (More) |
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Lawyers for Gitmo detainees on hunger strike request medical records
Attorneys for some Guantanamo Bay detainees asked for access to their clients' medical records Wednesday as they worried that the detainees' eight-week-long hunger strike may be severely harming their clients' health. Lawyers for a gro (More) |
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Bush administration opposes Gitmo commissions appeal to Supreme Court
The Bush administration has asked the US Supreme Court to reject an appeal from a US DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision supporting the administration's use of military commissions to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay . Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yem (More) |
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Iran to submit nuclear plan next month, not fearful of UN action
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani announced Friday that Iran is not concerned about possible UN Security Council action on its continued uranium enrichment activities but said that the nation planned to present new ideas aimed at redu (More) |
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Families of USS Cole dead can sue Sudan
A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report] in Yemen on the USS Cole to pursue their lawsuit against the Sudanese gover (More) |
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US releases three more Guantanamo detainees
The US military announced Monday that three more detainees from Iran, Yemen and Tajikistan respectively have been released from the US terror suspect detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and sent home to their own countries. US Defense Department C (More) |
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UN report says Yemen judiciary "infested with corruption"
The Arab Regional Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a report saying the Yemen judiciary system and employment in the country's monitoring and control bodies is "infested with corruption." The report (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
