Khadr’s lawyers eye psychiatric evaluation
Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA–With just two months left before Omar Khadr goes to trial for alleged war crimes, his lawyers continue to fight to have the case thrown out or delayed until he can have an independent psychiatric evaluation.
At a pre-trial hearing yesterday at the U.S. naval [...]
Karachi, Pakistani-American “terror suspect” Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s sister Dr Fouzia Siddiqui has said that she feared that the US security personnel might kill her in custody, in the same way as they had earlier killed one Saud Memon before he could be produced in court.
Fouzia also accused the Pakistan government of being hands-in-glove with the [...]
By Center for Constitutional Rights
The following is a release by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
August 14, 2008, New York — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an extremely rare order that the case of Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar would be heard en banc by all of the active judges on the Second Circuit [...]
Daily Star staff
BEIRUT: Investigative Magistrate into the Nahr al-Bared incidents Judge Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release on bail Thursday of detainees in the case, a judicial report said.
The report said that after receiving the approval of State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza, Oweidat released 15 detainees. One of them is Tunisian and the others are Lebanese and [...]
A US general described by colleagues as a bully was barred on Thursday from further involvement in the war crimes trial of a young Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo, the second time the legal adviser has been blocked from a case.
The judge also ordered that the attempted murder charges against defendant Mohamed Jawad, now 23, be [...]
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