Kayleigh Shebs
[JURIST] A Moroccan criminal court on Thursday convicted [MAP report] Moroccan citizen Said Boujandia of crimes associated with terrorist acts. The Sale Criminal Court sentenced Boujandia to 10 years in a Moroccan prison. Boujandia admitted his association with with a terrorist organization who sought to aid the Taliban, but has denied committing any crime. [...]
Amid Criticism, Attorney General Says, “Different Situations Call For Different Solutions”
(AP) Attorney General Michael Mukasey, defending military commissions to prosecute suspected terrorists, told federal judges Wednesday the upcoming trials will be “in the best traditions of the American legal system.”
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge, said trying suspected terrorists in criminal courts [...]
A Moroccan investigative judge on Tuesday questioned a journalist from Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television who was being held on terrorism charges, said court officials.
Moroccan journalist Abdelhafid Sriti was the correspondent here for the Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV. He was arrested in February along with 35 others suspected of belonging to a terrorism cell headed by Abdelkader [...]
Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Only a third of Canadians believe Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will receive a fair trial if the U. S. prosecutes him for war crimes, but the majority of Canadians still don’t want him brought home, a new survey released today reveals.
The Angus Reid Strategies poll shows a country still [...]
by Nat Hentoff
If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials—or at least an unsparing Congressional investigation—an essential witness against them will be Murat Kurnaz. His book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo [...]
The entrance to the Kenitra prison, north of Rabat, Morocco. Photograph:
Abdelhak Senna/A
Nine people convicted of offences linked to suicide terrorist attacks in Morocco in 2003 have escaped from prison.
The country’s ministry of justice said a search was under way for the prisoners, who were found to be missing from the Kenitra prison, north of Rabat, [...]
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