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Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University School of Law; January 14, 2012
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JURIST Guest Columnist John Bickers of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law says that changes in the past decade have made the use of military commissions in the fight against al Qaeda both unnecessary and politically detrimental...
Guantanamo detainee files complaint against Lithuania in Europe rights court
Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee and alleged al Qaeda facilitator on Thursday filed a case against Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights for torture and secret detention at a CIA-run location...
JURIST Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham (US Army, ret.), formerly assigned to the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, says that the Executive Order for the Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo Bay...
Federal appeals court overturns release order for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday overturned a lower court's decision granting release to Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman. Uthman's 2004 habeas corpus petition...
The Bagram Detainee Review Boards: Better, But Still Falling Short
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Andrea Prasow, senior counter-terrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, says that while the new system of Detainee Review Boards at Bagram is a significant improvement over past US practice, the US and its coalition partners need...
Most Guantanamo detainees 'low-level' combatants: government report
A task force initiated by the US government to evaluate the status of Guantanamo Bay detainees has reported that only 10 percent of inmates were terrorist leaders when President Barack Obama took...
Kenya foreign ministry seeking release of Guantanamo detainee
The Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared Wednesday that Kenya's government is attempting to secure the release of Kenyan native Mohammed Abdumalik, who is currently detained at Guantanamo Bay . The news was revealed in...
Family of Guantanamo detainee files lawsuit against Kenya government
The family of Kenyan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamed Abdulmalik has filed a lawsuit against the Kenyan government claiming that he was illegally detained, tortured, and rendered to US authorities. The suit seeks Abdulmalik's return to Kenya...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham (US Army, ret.), formerly assigned to the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants and the first officer to publicly criticize the Combatant Status Review Tribunals at Guantanamo,...
