Guantanamo ex-prosecutor testifies on political influence in commission cases
Top US Department of Defense officials said that there could be no acquittals at Guantanamo Bay military commissions and pressured prosecutors to bring charges against detainees, according to Monday testimony by former Guantanamo Bay chief military...
Don't Kick Contractors Off the Battlefield: Just Hold Them Accountable
JURIST Guest Columnist Tara Lee, a former Navy JAG now practising national security law, says that kicking contractors off the American battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan is not the answer to alleged problems and abuses; security contractors aren't mercenaries and...
Former Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya said Saturday that she has hired a lawyer and is now fighting her controversial May 2007 removal from the Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament ....
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the latest instance of perfidy in a Pakistan whose military leaders have been self-servingly dedicated to America's war or terror... Te...
Canadian MPs call for ending detainee transfers to Afghan authorities
Canadian opposition parliamentarians Dennis Coderre (Liberal) and Paul Dewar (NDP) Friday called for Canada's government to stop allowing detainees captured by Canadian forces in Afghanistan to be transferred to Afghan custody, alleging that once transferred, suspects are...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency in Pakistan has created a situation of lawlessness in the country that may actually prompt another military coup... On November 3, Pakistan...
Supreme Challenge: Pakistan's Presidential Election Goes to Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that in its forthcoming ruling on the legal validity of General Pervez Musharraf's candidacy in the country's recent presidential...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that constitutional questions remaining after the Pakistan Supreme Court's recent ruling that President Pervez Musharraf may contest the upcoming Pakistan presidential election as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed...
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda , the newly elected successor to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe , said Friday that he plans to submit a new anti-terrorism law to parliament that will allow Japan...
Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, removed outspoken parliamentarian Malalai Joya on Monday after she unfavorably compared the parliament to a stable. Joya's remarks, made during a private television interview, held...
