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...
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US will not seek death penalty against any charged Gitmo detainees
The US Department of Defense said Wednesday that it will not seek the death penalty in the cases of any of the five newly charged Guantanamo Bay detainees or the four previously charged, including David Hicks and...
The Pentagon Monday charged five more Guantanamo Bay detainees - two Saudis, an Algerian, an Ethiopian and a Canadian - with war crimes, bringing to nine the number of detainees charged out of some 500 held at the Cuba...
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...
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 [JURIST news...
Lebanon arrests 3 former security chiefs in Hariri murder probe
Lebanon has arrested three former pro-Syrian security chiefs, and the head of the presidential guard Mustafa Hamdan turned himself into authorities after an arrest warrant was issued for him in connection with the killing of former...