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Turkey's parliament on Thursday approved legislation to prohibit terrorism financing. In passing this legislation , Turkey may have narrowly avoided expulsion from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) . Turkish President Abduallah Gul...

Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , Irina Bokova , on Friday condemned the increasing number of murders of journalists in Pakistan and urged the government to investigate the crimes....

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday ruled that two former Guantanamo detainees cannot continue to litigate their habeas corpus petitions and refused to order the Government to rescind...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that all instances of torture must be investigated as violations of US and international law and a failure to do so will allow impunity for those who authorized...

An Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee believed to be an al Qaeda leader, was found dead in his cell in what appears to be a suicide , the US Southern Command announced Wednesday. Guards...

General Counsel for the US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday urged Congress to allow civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees, in addition to military commissions. At a hearing before the House...

A US military tribunal on Friday sentenced Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed to 14 years in prison following a plea agreement in which he admitted to helping al Qaeda and...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday overturned a lower court's decision to grant habeas corpus to Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Saeed Hatim, blocking his release....

Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed pleaded guilty before a military tribunal Tuesday to terrorism charges. Mohammed entered guilty pleas to one count of providing material support of terrorism...