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Commentary INDIA: Lawless Lawyers
INDIA: Lawless Lawyers
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 31, 2007 09:15:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: On Wednesday a gang of lawyers tied a 24-year old boy to a tree in front of the Court in Agra. They shaved his head and poured water on it. Then the...

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Commentary Flawed prosecution in Diaz
Flawed prosecution in Diaz
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 21, 2007 03:24:00 pm

Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr. : "Lawyers and law students, civilian and military, need to pause and seriously consider both the court-martial and verdict in the case of Navy JAG, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Diaz. My comments are...

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Commentary INDIA: Extreme Religion
INDIA: Extreme Religion
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 20, 2007 09:13:00 am

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: India is a nation that takes religion seriously. Articles 25-8 of the Constitution guarantee citizens the fundamental right to religious freedom. Rickshaw drivers stick their arms up into the air when they...

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Commentary No heroes at the Justice Department
No heroes at the Justice Department
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 18, 2007 08:16:00 pm

Ben Davis : "I recognize that we are in a moment in which we are desperately looking for (present or former) legal heroes in Justice, but while the Ashcroft hospital bed story makes great cinema...

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Commentary Prosecuting Saddam’s trial judge in the UK
Prosecuting Saddam’s trial judge in the UK
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 27, 2007 11:03:00 am

Giovanni Di Stefano : "On the 17th March 2007 I wrote to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, seeking leave to prosecute in the criminal courts in accordance with the Geneva Conventions...

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Commentary Beyond Orwell: the existential threat of Guantanamo detainees
Beyond Orwell: the existential threat of Guantanamo detainees
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 27, 2007 10:43:00 am

Ben Davis : "Taking together the report of the Justice Department filing to reduce access of lawyers to GITMO detainee clients, the medical establishment's approach to those detainees, and snippets of George Tenet's interview on...

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Commentary Get KSM a lawyer
Get KSM a lawyer
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 19, 2007 09:02:00 am

Ben Davis : "I have been greatly troubled reading the censored transcript of the hearing of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before the Combat Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) - antechamber to the Military Commissions created under the...

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Commentary Stimson should be forced to resign
Stimson should be forced to resign
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 17, 2007 05:46:00 pm

Ben Davis : "Charles 'Cully' Stimson has had a hard week. On January 11, 2007 he made shocking comments on the pro bono lawyers who are working on behalf of Gitmo detainees, calling for corporate...

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Commentary Lawyer statement on al-Tikriti/al-Bandar executions
Lawyer statement on al-Tikriti/al-Bandar executions
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 15, 2007 08:30:00 am

Giovanni Di Stefano : "On the 3rd January 2007 I saw both Judge Al Bandar and Barzan Al Tikriti at Camp Cropper. On the 5th January 2007 I duly presented to the Iraqi High Tribunal a motion...

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Commentary MCA habeas suspension and Hamdan
MCA habeas suspension and Hamdan
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 14, 2006 09:01:00 am

Jordan Paust : "The Constitution expressly mandates that "he privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Case of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." U.S. Const.,...

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Fall of Srebrenica precipitates massacre of Bosnian Muslims

On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the predominantly-Muslim town of Srebrenica, which had been designated a "safe zone" protected by Dutch NATO peacekeepers. In the days that follows, the Serb army and militias separated men from women and children, taking the men away in buses and killing some 7000 in mass-executions or ambushes. Learn more about the Srebrenica massacre.

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