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21 Feb 2009, 8:37 am
[JURIST] A report prepared for the Pentagon by US Navy Admiral Patrick Walsh [official profile] has concluded that the Guantanamo Bay detention center [JURIST news archive] meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials], according to Friday statements from US officials who have reviewed the document. [read post]
22 Dec 2005, 9:58 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] requested that the German government not release Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a convicted hijacker accused of killing a US Navy diver, but Germany [JURIST news archive] refused, the Bush administration confirmed Wednesday. [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 10:55 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] Sunday condemned [statement text] what she called Israel's "disproportionate use of force" against Hamas targets in Gaza and urged the Israeli government to "uphold international humanitarian law principles, especially those relating to proportionality in the use of military force and the prevention [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 11:45 am
The complaint [text, PDF], which names the US Army, Navy and Air Force [official websites] as defendants, argues that veterans who were given "undesirable" discharges for conduct attributable to undiagnosed PTSD should have had their discharge status... [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 11:15 am
The comments come following efforts from the US government and US-based companies to cut ties with the controversial website, responsible for leaking more than 250,000 classified diplomatic documents [NYT backgrounder] last month and 90,000 related to the Afghan war [JURIST report]... [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 10:47 am
Pillay "urge[d] the Egyptian authorities to end the clearly excessive use of force against protestors in Tahrir square and elsewhere in the country, including the apparent improper use of tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
Manadel Al-Jamadi was captured [JURIST report] by US Navy SEALs on November 4, 2003 and held in Abu Ghraib prison as a "ghost detainee," or unregistered prisoner, for his suspected involvement in the bombing of a Red Cross center in Baghdad that killed 12 people. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 12:32 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Friday rescinded a new rule that required military judges presiding over war crimes tribunals at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay to relocate to Cuba. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 5:34 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that the US Navy did not have to disclose the locations and potential blast ranges of explosive artillery stored at a Puget Sound military base. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 5:02 am
US Navy Rear Admiral Harry Harris [official profile], commander of Joint [read post]
2 Aug 2006, 2:01 am
[JURIST] The US military has banned the media and public from observing witness testimony of Iraqis in upcoming Article 32 hearings [Navy JAG backgrounder] for five US Army soldiers charged [JURIST report] in connection with the rape of an Iraqi teenager and the murder of her and her family in Mahmudiya [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
11 Mar 2003, 3:53 am
[JURIST] A panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that it had no jurisdiction to hear claims of unlawful detention brought by 16 Afghan war detainees - including two Britons and two Australians - held without access to lawyers or their families at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 1:09 am
[JURIST] The US Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals [official website] upheld [opinion, DOC] Tuesday a military judge's dismissal [JURIST report] of the charges against Lt. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 11:14 am
The lower court found in 2012 that Sudan had provided "material support" to al Qaeda and ordered compensation for the 17 US Navy sailors killed and 42 injured in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. [read post]
18 May 2007, 1:37 am
[JURIST] US Navy Lt. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 12:54 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday denied an appeal [PDF opinion] from convicted spy Jonathan Pollard [advocacy website] to reduce the life sentence he received for selling classified documents to Israel while working as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy. [read post]
21 Jun 2006, 9:17 am
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22 Apr 2011, 5:28 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday said the use of violent force by the government of Libya in densely populated cities could amount to international war crimes [press release]. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 2:15 am
[JURIST] US Navy Rear Adm. [read post]
11 Mar 2005, 1:26 am
[JURIST] Skeptics on and off Capitol Hill Thursday assailed a new report on military interrogation practices authored by US Navy chief of staff and former Inspector General Admiral Albert T. [read post]
