The military commission trial of Australian David Hicks , who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for more than 3 1/2 years, was postponed on Monday by a US district judge until the US Supreme...
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Senate to vote on compromise allowing Gitmo detainees to challenge detentions
The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order...
JURIST Guest Columnist Devika Hovell of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks by US military commission highlights his transformation from an alleged perpetrator of...
US Supreme Court to hear foreigner rights, workmen's compensation cases
In addition to considering the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case involving Guantanamo tribunals , the US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three other cases. In Bustillo v. Johnson, the Court will consider...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear challenge to Gitmo tribunals
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's use of military tribunals for foreign terror suspects. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld comes on appeal from the...
Pentagon sets date of military commission trial for Australian Gitmo detainee
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that David Hicks , the only Australian held at the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , will go to trial before a special military commission on November 18, about...
Australia government welcomes resumption of trial for Gitmo detainee
The Australian government said Wednesday it was pleased with the US decision to resume military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in light of a US federal appeals court ruling in...
The US Defense Department Tuesday directed that suspended military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks be resumed following a July US appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that military...
Senators Charles Schumer and Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they expected US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to address why he chose not to recuse himself from the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [PDF...
Court documents released Thursday revealed that the US government is arguing that Australian citizen David Hicks should face a military commission trial following an appellate court ruling from a three judge panel that included US...