Guantanamo detainees contact and medical records ruling [US DC] News
Guantanamo detainees contact and medical records ruling [US DC]

Majid Abdulla al-Joudi et al. v. George W. Bush et.al, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Gladys Kessler, October 26, 2005 [ruling that Guantanamo detainees on a hunger strike must be notified by the US Defense Department before their clients may be force fed against their will, and that the government must provide detainee medical records from before the hunger strike to their attorneys]. Read the full text of the memorandum opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Alabama governor Wallace deployed National Guard to stop integration of Tuskegee High

On September 2, 1963, then-Alabama Governor George Wallace surrounded the Tuskegee High School with Alabama National Guard troops in an effort to prevent its integration pursuant to a federal court order in Lee vs. Macon County. In response, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Guard and sent it back to its barracks.

Former Rwanda politician convicted of genocide

On September 2, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted the former mayor of Taba, Jean-Paul Akayesu, on nine counts of crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. A month later, Akayesu was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. Read ICTR documents from the trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu.