The Sanctions and Security Research Program (SSRP) of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has issued its latest research report, Human Rights and Targeted Sanctions: An Action Agenda for Strengthening Due Process Procedures.
The paper offers a timely menu of policy options for the [...]
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The Departments of Defense and Justice announced on 13 November “forum decisions” for ten detainees at Guantanamo Bay whose cases were previously charged in military commissions, including five detainees accused of conspiring to commit the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and a detainee accused of orchestrating the attack on the USS Cole.
The Attorney General, [...]
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[JURIST] A Spanish lawyer said Wednesday that she has filed a complaint with the General Council of the Judiciary alleging abuse of power and discrimination after a National Court judge asked her to leave the courtroom for declining to remove her hijab, or Muslim headscarf. Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez asked lawyer Zoubida Barik Edidi to [...]
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[JURIST] Suspected al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri was sentenced Thursday to eight-and-a-half years in prison for conspiracy to help the terrorist organization, including researching potential targets within the US for chemical weapon attacks. The sentence was less than the 15 years sought by federal prosecutors. In handing down the lesser sentence, District [...]
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The trials of 21 defendants accused of participating in the violent July 2009 protests in Urumqi did not meet minimum international standards of due process and fair trials, Human Rights Watch said.
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A security certificate against a Montreal man accused by Ottawa of having terrorist ties has officially been declared null and void.
Adil Charkaoui, a married father of three who has steadfastly denied any links to terrorists, said Wednesday he’s elated with the judgment.
Federal Court Justice Daniele Tremblay-Lamer wrote that the certificate has been quashed and that [...]
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In any judicial review proceedings relating to a case which involved crucial, “hard-edged” questions of fact in light of which it was necessary for the court to allow cross-examination of makers of witness statements on those “hard-edged” questions of fact, it was vital for full disclosure to occur to enable effective and proper cross-examination to [...]
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The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence has declassified its Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book from which the US intelligence community ‘draws much of its authority and guidance’. Download the 949 pages here.
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Read it here.
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After a US military judge ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and accused 9/11 co-conspirator Ramzi bin al-Shibh will not be allowed to tour secret CIA prisons where al-Shibh was detained, his lawyers plead to stop all proceedings in his impending military commission trial. In a new brief they argued that Congress had no [...]
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