Georgetown SLB reports that the Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals’ 9-2 decision in August offered Miranda-style guidelines to prosecutors and judges on how to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights while conducting [...]
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13 National Terrorism Centres gathered in Paris last week to discuss further cooperation, Le Monde reports. At the meeting countries which have such a body, including Germany, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, decide to launch a common structure: the Coordinating Committee of Counterrorism Centres. This network will monitor developments of the terroris threat. [...]
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The register reports that UK Security Minister Lord West told the Lords on Wednesday that he could not say how many websites have been censored because no records have been kept. The Terrorism Act 2006 granted powers for police to compel web hosts to shut down websites promoting terrorism. But the powers have never been [...]
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An advanced edited version of the UN Special Rapporteur’s report on Egypt is out now. (A/HRC/13/37/Add.2, 14 October 2009). It will be discussed at the Human RIghts Council’s Thirteenth Session in March 2010.
In this report the Special Rapporteur examines the emergency law, criminal law provisions on terrorist crimes, and amended article 179 of the Constitution [...]
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Read it here.Excerpt:
We recognize that the fight against terrorism requires coherent and coordinated action. We recall our joint statement on the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to future more expansive counter-terrorism cooperation. The prevention of violent radicalisation and recruitment is critical to enhancing citizens’ safety from the threat of terrorism. The misuse [...]
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Beth van Schaack – International Criminal Law & its Enforcement
This chapter, to appear in the 2nd edition of Beth Van Schaack & Ron Slye’s International Criminal Law & Its Enforcement (Foundation Press 2010), covers the crime of torture under international criminal law. It begins with a doctrinal discussion of the elements of torture as elucidated [...]
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Statement by US legal counselor on counter-terrorism in UN GA 6th committee on 7 October.
Excerpt:
The United States continues to support a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism that would strengthen this existing legal regime and reinforce the critical principle that no cause or grievance justifies terrorism in any form. We firmly believe that any successful resolution [...]
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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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Najibullah Zazi, a legal permanent resident of the United States from Afghanistan, was indicted in the Eastern District of New York on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction (explosive bombs) against persons or property in the United States. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. Zazi is currently detained without bail.
That [...]
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After two trials and the largest counter-terrorism investigation in Britain’s history, three out of eight accused were found guilty of conspiring to kill passengers and crew members aboard at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners on a single day with liquid explosives smuggled aboard in soft-drink bottles and detonated by devices powered with AA batteries. The men [...]
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