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JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that while the Bush administration may attempt to fix the procedural problem that resulted in the recent dismissal of US military commission...

A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Monday that Hicks does not plan to challenge the legality of any control order imposed after his release from prison in Australia. David...

Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison near his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia Sunday to serve the remainder of his nine-month prison sentence. In March, a...

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said Monday that the treatment and trial of Australian detainee David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay demonstrate that the US and Australian governments are "prepared to throw every legal principle out the...

Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Monday that the government would amend an existing federal law preventing convicted criminals from profiting from their offenses if it became apparent that it allowed Guantanamo detainee David Hicks to sell his...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks before a US military commission has demonstrated the disturbing willingness of two allegedly democratic governments to abandon the rule...

The American Bar Association (ABA) Friday criticized a US Department of Justice proposal that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees should be subject to tightened restrictions , including limited access to...

Lawyers visiting Afghan detainee Haji Bismullah at Guantanamo Bay should be subject to tightened restrictions , including limited access to their client and evidence, the US Justice Department has urged in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the overbearing terms imposed on Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in his recent military commission plea agreement are the product of an overly and unfairly coercive system...

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will not be permitted to sell his story to the media, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Sunday. Though he has not been found...