Daily Archives: May 22, 2008 »
After Gitmo: The Government’s Responsibility
By Aziz Huq | After Gitmo: The American Government is Legally and Morally Responsible for Giving Innocent Prisoners a New Life in the U.S. The US Supreme Court has yet to rule on the
Read More »Iraqi TV station says U.S. troops killed cameraman
By Aseel Kami and Khalid al-Ansary | An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops on Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home. Colleagues of Wisam Ali
Read More »How the Government Is Passing Secret Laws
By Sean Gonsalves | Once upon a time, a team of federal attorneys went before the Supreme Court only to discover that their entire case was based on a revoked executive order and therefore moot.
Read More »Is Amsterdam turning into a prudish backwater?
By Frank Scimone | The owners of cafés in the centre of Amsterdam are again up in arms against what they say is the umpteenth attempt to turn the city into a prudish provincial
Read More »Here Come the Trials: A Military Commissions Cheat Sheet
By Joanne Mariner | In the more than six years since President George Bush first announced the creation of military commissions to prosecute detainees allegedly responsible for terrorism, war crimes, and other misdeeds, there
Read More »Criminal DNA left unchecked for 13 months
PSCA | A report has found “significant shortcomings” in the Crown Prosecution’s Service’s (CPS) data handling. In January 2007 Dutch police sent a disc containing 2,159 DNA profiles from crime scenes so the UK
Read More »Olmert to U.S.: Impose naval blockade on Iran
By Barak Ravid and Amos Harel | Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed in discussions with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, that a naval blockade be imposed on Iran as
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