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2 May 2008, 4:19 am
[JURIST] An Al Jazeera [media website] cameraman from Sudan who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] since 2002 was released from the prison [press release] on Thursday and flown back to Sudan early Friday morning. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 2:04 am
[JURIST] US FBI agents reported numerous instances of military personnel and contractors using harsh interrogation practices at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], including wrapping a detainee's head in duct tape and a female guard wiping menstrual blood on detainees' faces, according to new information [report, PDF; ACLU press release] released by the FBI Tuesday. [read post]
28 Mar 2006, 7:38 pm
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] announced [press release] Tuesday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] has dropped its appeal of a September District Court order [opinion text, PDF] requiring it to publicly release more photographs showing detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, pursuant to an ACLU request [ACLU FOIA materials] under [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 4:09 pm
HRIC Executive Director Sharon Hom said in a press release [text] [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 6:41 am
Yesterday the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics released (press release) a report on Hate Crime Victimization, 2004-2015. [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 6:18 am
[JURIST] The Chinese government released two democracy activists [HRIC press release] Thursday after serving eight years of their ten-year prison sentences, according to US-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) [advocacy website]. [read post]
31 Aug 2005, 3:22 am
The request is part of a 2003 ACLU lawsuit [press release] in which the [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 11:24 pm
The USPTO today released its annual report for fiscal year 2008 (press release here), which ended September 30. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 6:25 am
The Attorney General’s Press Conference The Attorney General announced late Wednesday that he would hold a press conference to explain the report before releasing it around 11:00 AM EST. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 1:10 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Monday defended [speech transcript] his recent decision to release [DOJ press release, JURIST report] memos describing interrogation methods employed by CIA [official website] officials in questioning Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 7:59 am
Though the two released detainees were natives of Egypt and Yemen, they were resettled in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro [DOD press releases]. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 7:34 am
[JURIST] The Israeli cabinet decided Sunday to release 90 Palestinians [press release] currently imprisoned by Israel this week in an attempt to sway Palestinian opinion, including that of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile], on Israel [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:22 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon announced on Thursday that two Uighur [JURIST news archive] detainees were released [press release] from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] to be transferred to El Salvador, where they have chosen to resettle. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 11:09 am
This report is in response to President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13772 [press release], which established "Core Principles" for the federal government to strive to within the financial market. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 1:30 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Tuesday ordered the release [press release] of Turkish judge Aydin Sefa Akay who was detained in July. [read post]
30 Jan 2011, 7:28 am
[JURIST] Belarusian officials on Saturday released seven people, including one presidential candidate, who were taken in to custody [JURIST report] last month following protests surrounding the country's presidential election [press release, in Russian]. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 9:34 am
[JURIST] A confirmed al Qaeda member and Osama bin Laden [JURIST news archives] associate was released [DOD press release] from Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] and returned to his native Sudan on Wednesday after more than a decade of detention. [read post]
16 Feb 2015, 8:53 am
[JURIST] A coalition of 71 human rights groups released a statement [press release, PDF] on Monday urging the Syrian government to release three prominent human rights defenders on the third anniversary of their imprisonment. [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 8:47 am
[JURIST] The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) [official website] on Friday ordered the release [press release, PDF] of the Greenpeace International [advocacy website] ship Arctic Sunrise as well as the release of the 28 activists and two freelance journalists who were arrested on board the ship, upon payment of a €3.6 million euro bond by the Netherlands. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 7:05 am
Turkey's 35th Heavy Penal Court in Istanbul on Wednesday released [press release] eight of the eleven Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] human rights activists on bail pending trial for charges related to assisting the terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
