Lawyers for the three recently re-charged Guantanamo detainees renewed their condemnation of new military commission rules Thursday, telling the Associated Press that the tight deadlines established by the rules will prevent extended investigation...
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The US military announced Friday it has drafted new charges against three high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees. Col. Morris Davis (USAF) , chief prosecutor for the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, said that...
JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says although leading Republican senators are to be praised for advancing legislation to protect detainees and give them a fair trial before military commissions, there are still...
Former Saddam deputy PM Aziz files habeas petition with US Supreme Court
A lawyer for Tariq Aziz , former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition with the US Supreme Court , seeking...
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Supreme Court Affirms International Law
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the justices of the US Supreme Court have demonstrated how fundamental tenets...
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Stevens:Petitioner Salim Ahmed Hamdan,...
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the government's attempt to charge Salim Ahmed Hamdan with conspiracy to commit war crimes - a...
DOJ: Guantanamo inmates cannot use Constitution to challenge detention
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice have told the US Supreme Court that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay cannot challenge their detention by relying on the US Constitution because "the Constitution does not...
The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has brought charges against a tenth Guantanamo Bay detainee. Abdul Zahir has been formally charged with conspiracy, aiding the enemy and attacking civilians,...
Justice Department urges Supreme Court to dismiss Guantanamo tribunals case
The US Justice Department filed a motion with the US Supreme Court Thursday to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction a case brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan challenging President Bush's authority to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo...