Abigail Salisbury
[JURIST] Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] has filed suit [Globe and Mail report; Federal Court of Canada docket] against Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [official profile] in an effort to compel Harper to demand his release. Following last month’s discovery of documents [text, PDF] showing that the [...]
By Patrick Martin
A jury of six military officers sentenced Guantánamo prisoner Salim Hamdan to five and one-half years in prison, making him eligible for release before the end of this year, since he has been given credit for five years and one month already served. The decision clearly stunned military prosecutors, who had argued for [...]
Osama bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan has been convicted at Guantanamo Bay in his second trial at the hands of the Bush administration.
Had his first in 2004 not been interrupted by a successful appeal to the Supreme Court, he would have been acquitted. For what he has been found guilty of — providing material support [...]
..tis true .. I have to say I noticed this months ago…
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - It was no coincidence the U.S. military jurors at Guantanamo timed the prison sentence they gave Osama bin Laden’s driver to end just before President Bush’s term does, legal analysts say.
The timing seems intended to [...]
TOM TEEPEN
The verdict and sentence in the war crimes trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo suggest a military judge and jury taking justice seriously, but the military commissions that President Bush designated for handling such cases remain intolerably flawed.
The president’s novelty courts insult American values and affront the nation’s honorable traditions of military justice. They [...]
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