Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'
JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Satterthwaite of New York University School of Law says that US actions in the war on terror - especially the practice of extraordinary rendition - make a mockery of formal US insistence on the rule of...
Russia seeks UN briefing on Hague jail conditions prior to Milosevic death
Russian diplomat Konstantin Dolgov has requested a UN briefing on conditions in UN detention facilities following the recent deaths of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian Serb Milan Babic . Dolgov also asked Tuesday...
China refuses to release NYT researcher despite dropped charges: lawyer
Chinese prosecutors are refusing to release a New York Times researcher despite receiving a court order last week dismissing the charges against him, the researcher's lawyer said Tuesday. Zhao Yan has been detained since 2004, accused of...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Philip Ruddock, Attorney-General of Australia, outlines Australia's recently strengthened counter-terror laws, describing them as an appropriate, proportionate and balanced response by the Australian Government to emerging security threats... Following the terrorist attacks on the London transport...
US forces abused Iraq detainees before Abu Ghraib: NYT report
US forces abused Iraqi detainees long before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in 2004, the New York Times reported Saturday. An elite special forces unit formerly known as Task Force 121 and now known as Task Force 6-26 converted...
China sentences teacher to 10 years for subversion, releases NYT researcher
China's practice of "internet management" continued Friday with a 10-year sentence for Ren Ziyaun, a teacher found guilty of "subversion of state power" after posting "The Road to Democracy" and other essays on the Internet. According...
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...
The US Department of Defense late Friday released the names of Guantanamo Bay detainees pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Associated Press and later pressed in a lawsuit [AP...
Secretary General's report under Article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts, notably by or at the instigation of foreign agencies, Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, March...
The Council of Europe said Wednesday that an investigation into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated secret prisons in Europe revealed no "smoking gun" evidence that proved the existence of the prisons. COE...
