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Human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Liberty, and Reprieve on Monday joined with members of British parliament in calling for an inquiry into the UK role in torture and rendition during...

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.), a former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters and currently a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that no matter how...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a torture suit brought against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld by two...

White House advisers are considering recommending that accused 9/11 co-conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court rather than through the civilian criminal justice system, according to Friday reports. The Washington Post...

Lawyers for seven Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay filed a motion Thursday to remand proceedings from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the US District Court...

Joshua L. Dratel : "The advantages of federal criminal trials over military commissions for terrorist prosecutions are certainly too numerous to list in a few short paragraphs. However,...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider the case of seven Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay . The court originally granted certiorari [JURIST...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed habeas corpus petitions on behalf of four detainees held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The first petition , filed Friday...

The Queen on the application of Binyam Mohamed v. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth, England and Wales Court of Appeal, February 26, 2010 [disclosing additional text that was omitted from a previous ruling related to former Guantanamo...

The England and Wales Court of Appeal on Friday disclosed additional text that was omitted from a previous ruling related to former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed . The language in question is...