US transfers control of Camp Taji prison to Iraq authorities
The US military on Monday transferred Camp Taji , one of the two remaining detention facilities under US control, to Iraqi authorities. Located approximately 25 kilometers north of Baghdad, Taji currently houses about 2,900 detainees held...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says a recent effort by a conservative advocacy website to besmirsch the reputations of current DOJ lawyers who previously represented detainees should not distract the US government...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the guilt or innocence of "enhanced interrogation" memo writers John Yoo and Jay Bybee should be determined in state or federal court by a jury...
Top military appeals court upholds Abu Ghraib guard convictions
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Friday upheld the convictions of two soldiers found guilty of offenses committed as guards at Abu Ghraib prison . Army Spc. Sabrina Harman...
Navy SEALs accused of assaulting prisoner to be tried on US military base in Iraq
A US military judge ruled Monday that the trials for two Navy SEALs accused in the alleged assault of an Iraqi prisoner will be held on a US military base in Iraq in order for the alleged...
Supreme Court declines to hear torture suit by former UK Guantanamo detainees
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a lawsuit by four UK citizens and former Guantanamo Bay detainees against former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld [JURIST...
Decision to suppress detainee abuse photos keeps public in dark about misconduct
Alexander Abdo : "Historically, the United States has championed the use of photographic evidence of human-rights abuses to advance the cause of justice. The reason is simple: Pictures have a unique ability...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that justice would be better served by former Bush Administration officials if they would talk to federal prosecutor John Durham about the administrative missteps that led...
Federal court rejects Abu Ghraib detainees' lawsuit against contractors
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a lawsuit brought against private contractors by Iraqi plaintiffs alleging torture at the Abu Ghraib prison . The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official...
Abu Ghraib private contractor torture case ruling [DC Circuit]
Saleh, et al. v. Titan Corporation, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 11, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper...
