Federal Insurance Co. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

(Scotus) In No. 08-640, Federal Insurance Co. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United States has filed a brief recommending that cert. be denied.  The case arises out of the September 11 attacks and alleges, inter alia, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi High Commission for Relief to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and four [...]

Bosnia Investigates Radical Threats

Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency’s (SIPA) and Federal Police (FUP) have opened separate investigations into the activities of several Bosnians and radical Islamic websites suspected of advocating the killing of foreign troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and attempting to recruit Bosnians to fight against US-led coalition forces in both hotspots, ISN reports.

US Federal Judge rules government properly holding two Guantanamo detainees + more evidence on detainee abuse in Guantanamo Bay

(SCOTUS): U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled in December that two Guantanamo Bay detainees — nationals of Yemen and Tunisia — must remain prisoners of the U.S. military, finding that the government has proved that each is an “enemy combatant.”  In the most significant of the two separate rulings (Al Alwi), the judge concluded [...]

Amnesty International Annual Report on 2008 – focus on terrorism issues

Amnesty International is calling for a New Global Deal on human rights, because of a human rights investment gap by world leaders.
“It’s not just the economy, it’s a human rights crisis – the world is sitting on a social, political and economic time bomb,” said Irene Khan.
Read the report from May 2009 on 2008’s events [...]

Federal judge orders release of five Guantanamo detainees

From Jurist:
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainees. In the first ruling on detainees’ rights since the June Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush , Judge Richard Leon  decided that the government’s evidence was insufficient to persuade [...]

Abu Hamza deportation to Syria on basis of diplomatic assurances

Human Rights Watch stated that on October 6, 2008, Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities seized Abu Hamza al-Suri (No, it’s not this Abu Hamza) in Sarajevo and placed him in the Lukavica immigration detention center, pending possible deportation to Syria, where he faces a great risk of being tortured.
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from [...]

ICTY sentences Bosnian Army Commanders for actions of alleged ‘Al Qaida’ fighters

The former leader of Bosnia’s Muslim army, Rasim Delic, was sentenced on 15 September 2008 by the ICTY to three years in jail. Delic failed to prevent or punish cruel treatment by the ‘El Mujahid Detachment’, which was comprised of Islamic mujaheddeen from various countries, in the village of Livade and Kamenica Camp in central [...]