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Search Results for: 2002-05-03

Guantanamo detainee requests immediate relief amid alleged mistreatment, hunger strike

March 28, 2013 12:34:47 PM

Human rights lawyers on Tuesday filed an emergency motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that guards at Guantanamo Bay have denied drinking water and sufficient clothing to...

March 27, 2013 01:14:49 PM

UK authorities' appeal to deport radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan was dismissed on Wednesday after the Court of Appeal accepted arguments that Qatada would face testimony officials obtained via torture. Qatada...

December 3, 2012 11:21:01 AM

UK authorities led by Home Secretary Theresa May on Monday challenged a UK immigration decision that effectively blocked Jordanian extradition requests for Muslim cleric Abu Qatada . Qatada is wanted in Jordan on...

September 20, 2012 08:30:00 AM

David Frakt, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

July 24, 2012 03:33:59 PM

The Australian government has discontinued proceedings against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks over the profits from his memoir. Australia's Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) decided to halt the...

July 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer of the Northwestern University School of Law says that although the US is not an official member of the International Criminal Court, it can nonetheless promote international justice through strengthening its unofficial ties to the...

June 8, 2012 02:38:13 PM

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe called Friday on South African officials to oppose an investigation into allegations of human rights violations committed by members of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party. Mugabe denied...

May 25, 2012 10:59:00 AM

The US Department of State (DOS) on Friday released the 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . The reports outline the prevailing trends that shaped human rights last year. These include uprisings across the Middle East...

May 14, 2012 10:30:00 AM

JURIST Columnist Charles C. Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law examines the role of Alternate Judge El Hadji Malick Sow in Charles Taylor's trial and recent conviction and discusses the implications of Sow's decision to publicly disagree...

April 20, 2012 01:22:42 PM

The Pentagon announced on Thursday that two Uighur detainees were released from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to El Salvador, where they have chosen to resettle. They...

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