Iraq appeals court overturns conviction of US citizen facing death penalty
An Iraqi appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction and death sentence of Mohammad Munaf , a US citizen and former translator charged with orchestrating the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists held for 55 days...
Supreme Court to consider federal jurisdiction over US citizens held in Iraq
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in six cases Friday afternoon, including the consolidated cases of Munaf v. Geren (06-1666) and Geren v. Omar (07-394) , where...
Pakistani authorities have released more than 3400 lawyers and political activists detained in the aftermath of President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule , Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Igbal Cheema told AFP Tuesday, adding...
Federal appeals court denies jurisdiction over US citizen facing Iraqi death penalty
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that it lacks authority to interfere with an Iraqi court conviction and pending death sentence for US...
The Bush Administration believes in international law...when it's convenient
Aziz Huq : "When does the Bush Administration love international law?For those who have followed the Administration's seemingly implacable hostility to the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol, the answer has seemed...
Supreme Court refuses to halt transfer of US citizen facing Iraqi death penalty
The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application by US citizen Mohammad Munaf for a temporary injunction postponing his transfer to Iraqi custody where he faces the death...
Jonathan Hafetz : "Attorneys today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the United States from transferring Mohammed Munaf, a American citizen, to the custody of the Iraqi government. Mr. Munaf has been...
US citizen facing Iraqi death penalty asks Supreme Court to block handover
Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge, asked the US Supreme Court Monday to delay his transfer to Iraqi custody while US courts consider his case. Munaf was...
Appeals court blocks US handover of American to Iraqis before high court ruling
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Iraqi-American Mohammed Munaf had to be given ten days to appeal his case to the US Supreme Court and then the high court had to be accorded...
Habeas denial creates blank check for executive imprisonment
Jonathan Hafetz : "On October 19, 2006, the district court (Lamberth, J.) dismissed the habeas petition of Mohammed Munaf, the American citizen detained in Iraq by the United States and sentenced to death...
