The Joint Task Force responsible for reviewing the Guantanamo Bay detainees on Monday released a list of 78 detainees cleared for transfer. The list contains the nationalities and the number of detainees to be released but does not specifically identify the detainees by name. It also does not list where these detainees will ultimately be [...]

The head of the Honduran interim government Roberto Micheletti said Monday that he may lift restrictions on constitutional rights imposed Sunday by the end of the week. The de facto government passed an executive decree late on Sunday night suspending five articles in the Honduran Constitution for 45 days: personal freedom (Art. 69), freedom of [...]

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling on Monday urged banks to cut back on bonuses immediately instead of waiting for legislation following an agreement reached at last week's G-20 summit. In a speech to the Labour Party conference, Darling said that he hoped banks around the world would all cut back on bonuses but [...]

Omar, et al. v. Geren, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, September 28, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Shawqi Omar.

Zimbabwe's Supreme Court dismissed charges Monday against ten people, including rights activist Jestina Mukoko , who had been charged with conspiring against President Robert Mugabe . The court held that Mukoko, who is the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) , was tortured by security forces and denied access to legal and medical assistance [...]

Israel has threatened to deny the Palestinian Authority (PA) permission for a second cellular phone provider to operate in the West Bank unless the PA drops its request that the International Criminal Court investigate Israel for possible war crimes, Haaretz reported Sunday. The PA has contracted with Wataniya Mobile to provide service in the West [...]

A new Constitutional Court of Qatar , established to hear disputes over matters of constitutional interpretation, became functional Sunday. The court will act primarily to ensure that legislation complies with the country's constitution , which took effect in 2005, but will also be an appellate court for disputes over lower courts' interpretations of the law. [...]

Only about one out of every four individuals charged with terrorist activities has been prosecuted because federal agencies do not agree on what constitutes a terrorist, according to a study released Sunday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. The study looked at thousands of records from the Administrative Office of the [...]

Heidi Boghosian : "The police response to protests at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh will be remembered as especially brutal, given the debut of military sonic weapons against civilians. Technology used in Iraq, long range acoustic devices (LRADs), are more insidious than other so called less-lethal munitions because they leave no visible marks and can [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the Obama administration can break the sixty-year deadlock in negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians by supporting the establishment of a special moot court – a quasi-official, transparent, privately funded tribunal that would render a non-binding advisory opinion on the two [...]