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28 Oct 2013, 8:47 am
In a narrative populated by the likes of Nixon, Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, Indira Gandhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Tariq Ali, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, and Bob Dylan, Raghavan vividly portrays the stellar international cast that shaped the origins and outcome of the Bangladesh crisis.This strikingly original history uses the example of 1971 to open a window to the nature of international humanitarian crises, their management, and their unintended outcomes. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 7:00 am by Wells Bennett
Derek Poteet, attorney for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, rises and bolsters Ruiz’s position, by describing some outstanding, but quite important, discovery request. [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 1:14 pm by Wells Bennett
Ruiz here distinguishes his position from that of MAJ Wright, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s attorney. [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 9:35 am by Wells Bennett
  One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, MAJ Jason Wright, adds two cents, the first regarding the CAT’s status under U.S. law. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 5:17 pm by Tom Smith
A video obtained by ABC News shows a group of men, including the sheikh, torturing an Afghan grain merchant who he accuses of cheating him. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 7:09 am by Jane Chong
The raid on Barawe was conducted in cooperation with the Somali government, say Ghaith Shrennib and Abdi Sheikh of Reuters. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 3:18 am
Aniruddha Rajput, AES Summit Generation Limited and AES-Tisza Erömü Kft v Hungary: The Scope of ad hoc Committee Review for Manifest Excess of Powers and Failure to State Reasons Borzu Sabahi & Kabir Duggal, Occidental Petroleum v Ecuador (2012): Observations on Proportionality, Assessment of Damages and Contributory Fault Andrea Marco Steingruber, Antoine Goetz and others v Republic of Burundi: Consent and Arbitral Tribunal Competence to Hear Counterclaims in Treaty-based ICSID… [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 10:00 am by Clara Spera
 The Daily Beast reports that Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud issued a warning that Al Shabab, the group responsible for the attacks in Nairobi, could attack the United States next. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 7:05 am by Wells Bennett
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Walid Bin Attash are the only two accused present. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 10:15 am by Wells Bennett
 One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, David Nevin, does. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 7:20 am by Wells Bennett
The absence of three others—Mustafa Al-Hawaswi, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Ammar al-Baluchi—means an inquiry, conducted by prosecutor Robert Swann, regarding whether the skippers were informed of, but voluntarily waived, their rights to be here. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 6:48 am by Wells Bennett
 When prompted, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed pipes up and mentions the advice of right’s implications for attorney-client meetings. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 6:27 am by Rachel, Law Clerk
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, August 19, 2013:MLB notes: Lawyer: Yankees misled A-Rod | Baseball | Sports | Toronto Sun Justice plans sentencing changes for non-violent criminals Settlement reached in Penn State-Sandusky scandal CBA's Map to Equal Justice Pistorius Is Indicted on Murder Charge Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation (Glenn Greenwald/Guardian) Conrad Black OSC battle delayed until October - Toronto Star First same-sex… [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 4:00 am by Laura Dean
(Sheikh Mazhar was suspended for a couple of weeks this April following complaints that he had criticized then-President Mohamed Morsi.) [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 8:33 am by Sheldon Toplitt
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)Right result, wrong reason, is the reaction of human rights activists and free speech proponents to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah's pardoning of numerous prisoners, including citizen journalists Badr al-Rashidi and Ourance Rashidi, according to watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ("RWB").The mass release of inmates last week, including al-Rashidi and Rashidi, who had been incarcerated since June 14, 2012 and October 27, 2011, respectively, was… [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 11:50 am by Robert Chesney
  In this statement, Nafis also included quotations from “our beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden” to justify the fact that Nafis expected that the attack would involve the killing of women and children. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 6:34 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Air Force Reserve JAG Corps—writes in with the following extended thoughts on the state of military commissions: How to Salvage the Military Commissions Two military commission cases – the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged 9/11 co-conspirators and the Al-Nashiri case (involving the attack on the USS Cole among other charges) – are currently inching along at Guantanamo through pretrial litigation towards trial. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 9:53 am by Eugene Volokh
The best I could find was this passage 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]
11 Jul 2013, 8:54 am by Raffaela Wakeman
And to wrap up today’s roundup, I bet you have wondered, just how did the CIA try to mitigate damage wrought by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s harsh interrogation techniques, all those years ago? [read post]