Federal judge orders US to give attorney access to Guantanamo prisoner
A federal magistrate has ordered the Bush administration to stop blocking a private attorney from meeting with Salim Muhood Adem, one of the 490 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay . Adem, a Sudanese national arrested in...
International brief ~ Afghan citizen faces death penalty for converting to Christianity
Leading Monday's international brief, an Afghani man is on trial for criminal charges punishable by death related to his conversion from Islam to Christianity over 16 years ago while working for a Christian aid organization in Pakistan. Abdul Rahman...
German engineer Gotthard Lerch went on trial in Mannheim, Germany, Friday on charges that he aided Libyas abortive efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Lerch is widely known as a member of a clandestine network led...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist P. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, working pro bono with a team of Bingham lawyers in the Guantanamo habeas litigation, says that the detention of a Chinese Uighur is just one proof that...
Pakistan high court asked to force Muhammad cartoons referral to ICJ
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has been petitioned to force the country's government to bring an action in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against countries where cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad ...
Internet governance summit opens as oversight agreement reached
The UN's World Summit on the Information Society opened Wednesday in Tunisia as participants reached an 11th-hour agreement on a draft declaration which will leave the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike wants US court to let him starve to death
A Guantanamo detainee on hunger strike has asked for a motion ordering his feeding tube to be removed so that he can starve to death, his lawyers said Tuesday. Kuwaiti Fawzi al-Odah , 28,...
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that new charges have been filed against one of the men arrested in California earlier this year on terrorism charges. Hamid Hayat, 23, now faces charges of providing material support to...
Judge questions continued detention of Gitmo Uighurs cleared for release
A federal judge met with Justice Department lawyer Terry Henry Thursday to discuss why the US has not yet released two Chinese Uighur Muslims still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp after the government determined...
Benyam Mohammed , a 27-year-old Ethiopian man held at Guantanamo, claims he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco, and Afghanistan before arriving in Cuba. While there is no independent verification for Mohammed's claims, it is not the...
