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Back in March, the Convening Authority dismissed the charges against Guantanamo detainee Tarek Mahmoud El Sawah of conspiracy to commit acts attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, murder in vio...
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Yesterday we mentioned that a suit had been filed in the Southern District of New York by a number of commentators and public figures, arguing that the NDAA's detention provisions will apply to them in t...
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So reports the Washington Post . . .
UPDATE [5:17 p.m]: the referred charges in the capital case against KSM and his co-defendants include, among other things, conspiracy and attacking civilians. The c...
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Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, writes in about the continued need for control orders in the UK and why the criminal justice system will never be entirely satisfac...
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Transfer of the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP) from American to Afghan control has begun. The first step? Appointment of Maj. Gen.
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Will Polish judges have the occasion to weigh in on the legality of non-criminal detention of asserted al Qaeda members? Probably so. It appears that Polish prosecutors have brought charges against the...
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The 28-page opinion in United States v. Stone, (E.D. Mich. Mar.
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Amanda Jacobsen, a lawyer for Abu Zubaydah, has this oped in the Washington Post complaining that her client--and the government officials responsible for his detention and interrogation--have never face...
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An interesting development in the military commission case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged September 11 co-conspirators: The government has added charges of intentionally causing seri...
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Last week, we brought you the first sets of filings in Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi's petition for a writ of certiorari.
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Two new amicus briefs concerning the petition for a writ of certiorari in Latif. The first is on behalf of thirteen retired federal judges, who offer four main arguments:
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The government filed its opposition to cert in the case of Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi--a Guantanamo habeas petitioner. Al Alwi filed a petition for a writ of certiorari back in December, though we missed ...