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21 Feb 2011, 7:54 am by Pádraig McAuliffe
General Ahmed Saleh, the deputy governor of South Sinai, which covers Sharm-el-Sheikh, confirmed that there are no orders to hinder Mubarak’s movements. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 7:20 am by Geoffrey Mock
  In one instance, Amnesty has learned that 22-year-old Ahmed Atef was killed yesterday in North Sinai when security forces in the town of Sheikh Zuweid opened fire on a crowd of more than 1000 demonstrators. 2. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 12:41 pm by Jonathan Hafetz
Kaplan today sentenced Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 10:46 am by Eugene Volokh
[T]he leader of Adhaalath Party, Sheikh Hussein Rasheed, said that celebrating Christmas was unlawful and that it was a responsibility of the police to stop those events....IFM President Ibrahim Fauzy added that it was prohibited in Islam to allow non-Muslims celebrate their holidays in places where Muslims live. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 6:13 am by Bill Otis
From the February 2009 promise to close Guantanamo in a year, to the misbegotten attempt to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan, to the near acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani in a civilian trial, the Administration has failed to change the fundamental architecture of Mr. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 7:13 am by Geneve Mantri
Only last month Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Ghailani was successfully convicted in a free and fair trial and will likely be jailed for the rest of his life. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 10:57 am by Kent Scheidegger
  AP reports:In a setback for President Barack Obama, Democrats still controlling the House have approved legislation to prevent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to the U.S. for trials in criminal courts.The Guantanamo ban was included in a huge catchall spending bill that passed the House Wednesday by a 212-206 vote. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 8:59 am by Kevin Jon Heller
The Boston Globe reports of Senator John Kerry that he urged the return of the Golan Heights to Syria in return for peace: “In the meeting last February with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Kerry said Syria should be involved simultaneously in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “needs to compromise and work the return of the Golan Heights into a formula for peace,’’ according to the… [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 11:56 am by Tung Yin
There's been a lot of back-and-forth on whether the result of the trial of Ahmed Ghailani (one conviction for conspiracy; acquittal on the other nearly 300 counts) was a victory for the U.S. [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 2:20 pm
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahmud [official profile] had argued that due to the silence of the Somali Transitional Federal Charter [text, PDF] on confirmation procedures, Somalia's 1960 Constitution [text, PDF] must control, which states that all confirmations must be expressed by open vote. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 12:19 pm by Benjamin Wittes
“If President Obama needed a clarifying moment to help him decide whether to try Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court, a federal judge’s decision last week to bar the testimony of a key witness in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani should have provided it. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:22 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
(The same prison that held Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others accused of the 9/11 attacks). [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 3:58 pm
Freeh (far right), like Mukasey once an Article III judge in Manhattan and, more recently, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1993-2001).The authors of this op-ed applauded the Obama Administration decision to seek a federal district court trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 other Guantánamo detainees charged in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 3:56 pm by David Kravets
Adama Bah * Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye, a 49-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen and imam of Oregon, is denied flight to Dubai, where his daughter lives. [read post]
5 Jun 2010, 8:40 pm by Howard Friedman
Al-Ahmed says this is forbidden "because this is a realization of the liberal scheme to gradually normalize the mixing of genders in schools. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 9:38 pm
The immunity was lifted by Sheikh Hasina when she became Prime Minister in 1996.The killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members were grave human rights abuses, and those who committed them should be brought to justice. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 12:49 am
Kaplan has been presiding over pretrial proceedings in the upcoming September trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani for his role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa: a case that poses some of the same issues as the more controversial 9/11 prosecutions. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 4:40 pm by Jeralyn
From the military charge sheet against the five 9/11 defendants the Government will seek to try together: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hasawi: San Diego, CA Newark NJ Atlanta, GA Decatur, GA Venice, FL Sarasota, FL Miami, FL Orlando, FL Ft. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 1:52 pm by Govind Acharya
I was going to write asking for readers of this blog to write to the Bangladeshi authorities and urge them not to execute the five convicted killers (Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Bazlul Huda) of Bangladesh’s first president Sheikh Mujibar Rahman. [read post]