Ex-detainees claim abuse after US tribunal ruled them not ‘enemy combatants’ News
Ex-detainees claim abuse after US tribunal ruled them not ‘enemy combatants’

[JURIST] The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) [advocacy website] announced Friday that it has amended its case against former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld [press release; amended complaint, PDF] to include as plaintiffs two former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees who claim that even after the military's Combatant Status Review Tribunal [DOD backgrounder] found them not to be enemy combatants, they were still held and subject to beatings for a further two years. The case, Celikgogus et al v. Rumsfeld et al. [CCR backgrounder], was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] and involves three other former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim various mistreatment including beatings and humiliation.

The two former detainees added by CCR Wednesday are Abu Muhammad, a 43 year old medical doctor and Algerian refuge whose family lives in Pakistan, and Zakirjan Hasam, an Uzbekistan native who fled that country because of religious persecution. Both men were released, against their wishes, in Albania. AP has more.

THIS DAY @ LAW

UN Security Council called for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in Six Days' War

On November 22, 1967, the UN Security Council called for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied during the Six Days' War, and for respect of the right of all States in the area to "live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries." Read Resolution 242, which remains a cornerstone of efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East.

President Kennedy assassinated, VP Lyndon Johnson sworn inin

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Later that day, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was later tasked with leading a commission to investigate the assassination. President Johnson received the final report of the Warren Commission on September 24, 1964. Read the Warren Commission Report.