Obama should close Guantanamo and resist calls for alternative detention system
Jennifer Turner : "On Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman revealed that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered aides to draw up plans for closing down the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay....
A National Security Court: Restoring the Balance Between Security and Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that creation of a special US domestic court to try terrorism suspects need not be an exercise in "rights denial" but can in fact be a...
A spokesperson for the Pentagon acknowledged on Sunday while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the US held 12 juveniles at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home...
Converting Gitmo into a Front Line Post in the War Against Global Warming
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that not only should the incoming Obama administration close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, it should close down the stigmatized military base as a whole, coverting...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry again demanded Thursday that the United States repatriate 17 Uighur detainees that a US district judge has ordered to be released from the military prison at...
China executed two members of the Chinese Uighur Muslim ethnic minority last week, according to a report from US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) . According to the report , the two Uighurs, Mukhtar Setiwalki...
Ruling released on Uighur enemy combatant status at Guantanamo
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday released declassified portions of last month's decision that a US Combatant Status Review Tribunal had improperly designated a Chinese Uighur Muslim...
Federal appeals court overturns enemy combatant status of Guantanamo detainee
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday ordered the US government to release or transfer a Chinese Uighur Muslim detained at Guantanamo Bay, ruling that Huzaifa Parhat...
Ashley Deeks : "Last week the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi, a former Guantanamo detainee, was one of the people...
