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17 May 2004, 9:12 am
A report in the May 24 edition of Newsweek is suggesting that a memo from White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales may have opened the door for US abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other facilities by suggesting that the post-September 11 situation and the war against terror "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its [read post]
6 Sep 2006, 8:11 pm
That way, we could actually have a public debate about whether Congress is authorizing cruel treatment, and whether we are thus de facto breaching the Geneva Conventions. [read post]
4 Nov 2023, 11:12 am
Condemning these actions, the PRCS statement argued, “PRCS emphasises that the deliberate targeting of medical teams constitutes a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions, a war crime, and that the parties to the four Geneva Conventions are legally bound to ensure the protection of medical teams and civilians under all circumstances. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 5:55 am
Convention against Enforced Disappearance (Article 11) and the Ljubljana-The Hague Convention (Article 14), as well as the Geneva Conventions I-IV (Articles 49, 50, 129 and 146, respectively). [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 3:31 pm
On November 6th 2007, the members of Rhino and Rhino filed an application with the ECHR arguing that the dissolution of the association Rhino was a violation of article 11 of the Convention. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 12:43 pm
Noriega's lawyers argue that Noriega should remain classified as a prisoner of war under the Geneva Conventions [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 8:03 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein's former lawyer on Saturday asked the British attorney general for consent to prosecute former prime minister Tony Blair [official profile; JURIST news archive] for violations of the Geneva Conventions [materials]. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 6:55 am
Bizimungu was found guilty [JURIST report] in May 2011 on six counts of genocide and crimes against humanity for murder, extermination and rape in addition to violations of Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions [text].... [read post]
23 Jul 2006, 10:59 am
[JURIST] US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices even in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal [JURIST news archive], and military lawyers brought in to brief interrogators erroneously told them that the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials] did not apply to their detainees, according to a new Human Rights Watch report [text] released Sunday. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 5:25 am
The CDW was adopted [JURIST report] by the ILO at its annual conference in Geneva last year. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 12:26 pm
Makitan is accused [JURIST report] of violating the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War [text, PDF] by kidnapping people and torturing and insulting prisoners at a camp in Dretelj, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during the Balkan War [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 11:30 am
He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview [recorded video]: "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to these people in Abu Ghraib prison and [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 7:09 am
The Geneva Conventions [ICRC backgrounder] prohibit attacks on medical facilities. [read post]
27 Apr 2008, 7:33 pm
[JURIST] The US Justice Department told a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee [offical website] that abusive or humiliating interrogations of terror suspects ostensibly prohibited by the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on "outrages upon personal dignity" might be permissible if "undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation [read post]
6 Jan 2005, 9:44 am
[JURIST] Two law deans, one a former Navy Judge Advocate General and the other a former senior State Department official in the Clinton administration, testified late Thursday at Senate confirmation hearings for US Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales that the permissive approach to torture and the concomitantly narrow approach to the Geneva Conventions adopted by the Bush administration [read post]
20 May 2004, 8:36 pm
NBC News reported today that military personnel there allegedly committed the most "egregious violations" of the Geneva Conventions in all of the Iraqi prisons. [read post]
29 Jun 2006, 10:12 am
[JURIST] Wire services are reporting that the US Supreme Court [official website] has ruled that military commissions [DOD materials] at Guantanamo Bay are illegal under military law and the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials], holding in Hamdan v. [read post]
14 Dec 2004, 10:39 am
Bralo faces nine counts of grave breaches of the Geneva conventions and 12 counts of violating the laws and customs of war for the murder, rape and torture of civilians. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 12:01 pm
The six were sentenced [JURIST report] in May 2013 for crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions [text, PDF] during the 1992-95 Bosnia-Herzegovina Civil War. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 7:58 am
Supreme Court case ruling that military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees violate Geneva Convention prohibitions lauded that decision at the Harvard Law Review ’s annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday. [read post]
