Search Results for: 2001-12-21
Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court
Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai...
Terror suspect in 1998 US Embassy bombings pleads not guilty
Suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai appeared in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of...
ACLU report finds racial disparities in marijuana possession arrest rates
There is a racial bias in marijuana possession arrest rates press release], with black people 3.7 times more likely to be arrested than white people, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on three cases related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks Tuesday, upholding the dismissal of almost all of the claims against the defendants. In In Re...
The Government is Using al Bahlul v. US to Maintain the Political Status Quo
Shane Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights
Drone Operations in Current US Counterterrorism Strategy in Africa
Kevin Govern, Ave Maria School of Law
The top court in Ontario on Friday upheld Canada's general ban on marijuana, reversing a lower court decision which held that the nation's marijuana laws were unconstitutional . The Court of Appeal for Ontario held...
The UN Security Council on Monday approved a resolution extending the terms of 21 judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor,...