Italy pardons US colonel in CIA extraordinary rendition case
April 7, 2013
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on Friday pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) abduction and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Joseph Romano was security chief....... [more] 
Drone Strikes Threaten Habeas Corpus: A Proposed Solution
March 13, 2013
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of the Northwestern University School of Law says that habeas corpus rights are too important for the executive branch to ignore, even in a time of war...US President Barack Obama asserts that he has the constitutional privilege and power to order the killing o....... [more]
Holder: drone strikes on US soil legal in 'extraordinary circumstances'
March 6, 2013
A letter written by US Attorney General Eric Holder to Senator Rand Paul suggests that in "extraordinary circumstances" it would be lawful and within the president's authority to use a weaponized drone to carry out a lethal strike on an American citizen on US soil. Though dismissing the potential fo....... [more]
UN expert urges US to publish report on Bush-era detention, rendition program
March 4, 2013
The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson called Monday on the US government to publish the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report detailing investigations into the Central Intelligence Agency ....... [more]
Milan court convicts Italy spy chief for role in CIA extraordinary rendition
February 12, 2013
A Milan appeals court on Tuesday sentenced Niccolo Pollari, the former Italian spy chief, to 10 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping of a terror suspect as part of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program. Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Ha....... [more]
Senegal opens court to try former Chad dictator
February 8, 2013
Senegal's newly-created Extraordinary African Chambers officially opened on Friday to prepare for the prosecution of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre. Senegal's national assembly adopted a law in December allowing for the creation of the special tribunal with the support of the African Union ....... [more]
Regulating Internet Speech in France: A Broken Policy of Enforced Silence
February 6, 2013
JURIST Guest Columnist Félix Tréguer, Policy and Legal Analyst at La Quadrature du Net says that waging a "judicial guerilla war" in France on "hateful" Internet content unduly stifles free speech...The ghost of Yahoo v. LICRA has come back to haunt us. In 2000, after a criminal lawsuit wa....... [more]
More than 50 countries participated in US extraordinary rendition program: report
February 6, 2013
At least 54 countries participated in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) overseas detention and rendition of at least 136 people, the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) reported Tuesday. According to the report, after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the CIA began a secret deten....... [more]
Italy court convicts 3 Americans for 2003 rendition kidnapping
February 2, 2013
The Milan Court of Appeals on Friday convicted three Americans for their roles in the 2003 rendition kidnapping of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Due to diplomatic immunity, all three men had been acquitted in the previous trial where the Milan court convicted 23 form....... [more]
Defense lawyers seek to preserve prisons as evidence in 9/11 trial
January 28, 2013
Defense lawyers for the five accused 9/11 conspirators petitioned a US military judge at Guantanamo Bay on Monday to preserve the prisons where the defendants were held as evidence. The defendants claim that they were tortured during their time held in secret CIA prisons. This is one of the many iss....... [more]
Senegal adopts law creating special tribunal for former Chad dictator
December 20, 2012
Senegal's national assembly adopted a law on Wednesday that will allow Senegal to create a special tribunal to try Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre. The law allows Senegal President Macky Sall to ratifying an accord made in August with the African Union (AU) that will create the tribunal. The a....... [more]
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