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3 Sep 2014, 7:44 am
From the Human Rights Watch report, but it’s not clear whether it’s the same thing that the court relied on: On March 18, 2012, the well-known cleric Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Barrak issued a religious ruling declaring Badawi an “unbeliever … and apostate who must be tried and sentenced according to what his words require. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 5:08 am
Some recent military commissions news: On August 26th, Major Jason Wright, one of the attorneys representing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, resigned from the Army after he was ordered to leave the legal team representing Mr. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 6:58 am
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, September 2, 2014:The Canada Revenue Agency doubles down CRA audited left-wing think-tank because its research shows ‘bias’ Colorado public defenders want children out of restraints in courtKhalid Sheikh Mohammed's Army Lawyer Resigns, Alleges "Show Trial" Unpopular Police Officer Thinking About Committing Racially Motivated Offense For A Little Support (satire)California Closes… [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 8:27 am
Last week, one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyer’s, Maj. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 7:15 am
Jason Wright, one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyers in his military commission trial, has resigned from the Army, which terminates his representation. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 7:00 am
Cody brought us the Lawfare Podcast, which featured a conversation with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on the future of Somali democracy, development, and security. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 11:21 am
The New Republic tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried to send a letter to President Obama on the current crisis in Gaza, but the government refused to allow him to do so. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 4:15 am
Naharnet reports that in Lebanon yesterday, Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan has been elected as the country's new Grand Mufti. [read post]
9 Aug 2014, 10:55 am
Yesterday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia, spoke at Brookings on the future of his country. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 10:53 am
Tulisa Contostavlos, the singer accused of drug dealing based on evidence supplied by "fake sheikh" Mazher Mahmood, says she may sue him in civil court now that the case against her has collapsed. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 5:07 pm
On Monday 21 July 2014, the trial of singer Tulisa Contostavlos collapsed after the judge had ruled that it was likely that the Sun’s well known ex-News of the World investigative reporter, the “Fake Sheikh”, Mazher Mahmood, had attempted to persuade a witness to change his evidence and had then lied about it under oath. [read post]
12 Jul 2014, 6:03 am
The Bahraini nationals are Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of the al-Wefaq party [GU Berkley Center backgrounder], and his political aide Khalil al-Marzouq. [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 1:25 am
Andy McCarthy, the former AUSA who convicted the Blind Sheikh, explains why as only a sharp-eyed and experienced prosecutor could. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 8:23 am
In the Blind Sheikh indictment I wrote in 1993, Count One was a five-year, still ongoing “conspiracy to wage a war of urban terrorism against the United States” (charged under the Civil War–era seditious conspiracy statute in the federal code). [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 4:00 am
McMillen & Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Islamic Finance and the Shari'Ah: The Dow Jones Fatwa and Permissible Variance as Studies in Letheanism and Legal Change, (June 23, 2014).András Koltay, The Appearance of the Clear and Present Danger Doctrine In Hungarian Hate Speech Laws and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, (June 23, 2014).Recent and Forthcoming Books:Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American… [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 7:34 am
In the Abu Omar case, in which the CIA allegedly rendered an Egyptian sheikh from the streets of Milan, Italian prosecutors ultimately identified 26 U.S. intelligence and defense officers and tried them in absentia. [read post]
1 Jun 2014, 7:59 pm
While not as well known as Guantanamo inmates like 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Taliban 5 were some of the worst outlaws in the U.S. war on terror. [read post]
30 May 2014, 5:54 am
The traditional measure, government spending as a portion of GDP, ignores the significant impact of two other vital determinants of the true size of government: regulation, to be discussed in this paper, and tax expenditures, which were examined in an earlier Macdonald-Laurier Institute study authored by former StatsCan Chief Statistician Munir Sheikh. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 11:00 am
Can the military commissions be improved? [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 2:01 pm
[Ocala Star Banner] * A key member of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s defense team is leaving the Army because they were going to force him to leave the defense to attend a graduate course in Virginia. [read post]
