AP is reporting that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said that military trials of two suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay will resume as soon as possible and charges will be filed against eight other detainees.2:25 PM...
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Australia wants speedy military trial for Gitmo detainee, but lawyers balk
After US courts approved military trials for terrorism suspects, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said his government now wished for a speedy trial for David Hicks , an Australian who was captured in...
US military probe finds no abuse of Australian Gitmo detainees
An investigation conducted by the US Navy Criminal Investigation Services has found no evidence to support allegations that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainees were abused. In a letter written to Australian Prime Minister John Howard released...
Richmond Medical Center for Women, et al. v. Hicks, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, June 3, 2005 [finding unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting a controversial late-term partial-birth abortion procedure because it lacks an exception...
Lawyer for Australian Gitmo detainee says charges have no basis in international law
A lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Wednesday that he has secured opinions from several international lawyers concluding that the US government's terror-related charges against Hicks have no foundation in international law. Hicks,...
Australia asks US to speed up case against Guantanamo detainee
Australian attorney general Philip Ruddock has asked the US to expedite proceedings against Australian detainee David Hicks , the only Australian still held at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks was captured in Afghanistan in...
A former lawyer for Australian terror suspect David Hicks told a major law conference in Australia Monday that US military videotapes from the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be "as explosive as anything...
Prostitutes used in Gitmo torture, lawyer for Australian detainee says
Steven Hopper, lawyer for soon-to-be-released Australian Gitmo detainee Mamdouh Habib , has said that Habib has been subject to atrocities fit for a "vulgar concentration camp" while detained at Guantanamo Bay. Hopper said that interrogators...
US v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan; US v. David Matthew Hicks, US Department of Defense Appointing Authority for Military Commissions John T. Altenburg, Jr., October 21, 2004 [holding that, upon challenge as to their fitness and impartiality, three of the designated...
Superior Court of Washington, Thurston County; Judge Richard D. Hicks, September 7, 2004. Review the opinion . Excerpt: The clear intent of the Legislature to limit government approved contracts of marriage to opposite sex couples is in direct conflict with...