JURIST Special Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham (US Army, ret.), formerly assigned to the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants and the first officer to publicly criticize the Combatant Status Review Tribunals at Guantanamo,...
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Guantanamo detainee al Mutairi's release a welcome blow to government detention power
Gabor Rona : "On October 9, the Department of Justice announced the transfer of Guantanamo detainee Khalid Abdullah Mishal al Mutairi, to his home state, Kuwait. "On July 29, 2009, a federal court ruled that...
Identities of Guantanamo detainees released to Portugal revealed
The identities of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were released to Portugal last week were revealed Monday in papers filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia . Mohammad...
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo Bay detainee Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah in a partially redacted opinion [text,...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Portugal under an agreement between the countries. The Syrian nationals were released from the detention...
LATVIA: Constitutional Jurisprudence and International Precedent
Anna Mandel, Boston College Law '11, writes about her experience at the Latvian Constitutional Court.... In the United States, state and federal courts are not bound by the precedents or laws of other jurisdictions. For example, the Supreme Court of...
Federal judge grants Yemeni Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in an opinion unsealed Friday that the US lacks enough evidence to justify the continued detention of Yemeni national Mohammed al-Adahi, granting...
Federal judge denies habeas petition for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee: report
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a confidential ruling last week denying a habeas corpus petition by Guantanamo Bay detainee Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, the...
Military tribunal finds CIA techniques irrelevant to detainee competency hearing
A military tribunal has ruled that lawyers for accused 9/11 co-conspirator Ramzi bin al-Shibh will not be made aware of what interrogation techniques were used on him by the CIA prior to his transfer to Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
The Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of the Interior announced Friday that the country will accept two Syrian Guantanamo Bay detainees in order to aid US...