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Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court

October 22, 2013 03:45:07 PM

Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai...

October 15, 2013 02:52:13 PM

Suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai appeared in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of...

October 6, 2013 11:15:44 AM

US military special forces on Saturday captured Abu Anas al Libi, a suspected high-ranking operative of al Qaeda , during a raid conducted in Tripoli, Libya. US authorities allege that al Libi played a significant...

June 18, 2013 09:29:06 AM

Senior Libyan Judge Mohammed Naguib was assassinated Sunday by an unidentified gunman outside of the courthouse in Derna. Chairman of the Court of Cassation in Green Mountain province Judge Abdel-Aziz Mustafa al-Trabelsi confirmed that his...

April 24, 2013 02:10:21 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday resentenced Wadih El-Hage to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombing of two US embassies [PBS...

April 1, 2013 09:40:06 AM

Approximately 250 Yemeni demonstrators gathered Monday in front of the US Embassy in Sanna to demand the release of Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . According to media sources, 90 out the 166 remaining Guantanamo...

February 8, 2013 10:17:14 AM

Turkey's parliament on Thursday approved legislation to prohibit terrorism financing. In passing this legislation , Turkey may have narrowly avoided expulsion from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) . Turkish President Abduallah Gul...

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Reconsidering Russia's Pussy Riot

October 1, 2012 01:15:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, Yale Law School Class of 2014, posits that while Pussy Riot advocates much-needed overarching political and legal reforms, it also needlessly tramples current laws in so doing... On February 21, 2012, five members of the...

April 27, 2012 11:33:39 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday denied a request to release photos of Osama Bin Laden taken shortly after his death last year. Nonprofit...

February 29, 2012 12:27:45 PM

Former al Qaeda military commander Saif al-Adel was arrested at an airport in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian media. Egyptian security officials detained al-Adel upon his arrival after noticing...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

House Judiciary Committee opened impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon

On May 9, 1974, the US House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Peter Rodino (D-NJ) opened hearings into the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon in connection with the Watergate scandal. The Committee voted to impeach Nixon on three counts on July 30. Chairman Rodino died in 2005 at his home in New Jersey. He was 95.

Australia Parliament opened

On May 9, 1901, the Parliament of Australia convened for the first time in Melbourne. The Australian Parliament also held its first meeting in the new capital of Canberra 26 years later on the same day 1927. Finally, on this day in 1988 Australian opened its new Parliament House in Canberra. Read the Constitution of Australia.