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Search Results for: Wikileaks

US Army refers intelligence analyst's Wikileaks case for court-martial

February 4, 2012 09:43:09 AM

US Army commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-marital Friday on all charges for allegedly releasing classified information to WikiLeaks ....

January 23, 2012 08:00:00 AM

Finding Kuwait's Missing National Archives
Douglas Cox, City University of New York School of Law; January 23, 2012

January 9, 2012 09:49:30 AM

The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday acquitted Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim of charges that he sodomized a former male political aide. High Court Judge Mohamad...

December 23, 2011 03:55:18 PM

A US military court heard closing arguments Thursday at the pre-trial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning , which will determine whether he will face a court martial for his alleged role in the largest intelligence...

December 15, 2011 03:57:40 PM

The two-year sodomy trial of Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim came to a close Thursday with the prosecution delivering its closing arguments. Under Malaysian law, sodomy is punishable by...

November 11, 2011 11:00:07 AM

A US military court on Thursday convicted an army squad commander of three counts of premeditated murder for leading a "kill team" in Afghanistan that targeted unarmed civilians and collected body parts as war trophies. While three of...

November 3, 2011 08:00:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Félix Tréguer, Policy and Legal Analyst at La Quadrature du Net, says that the recent ruling blocking the Copwatch website in France is just another instance of censorship under the Sarkozy government which prevents French citizens from...

October 22, 2011 03:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that social media and networking have proven pivotal in the success of the Arab Spring protest movements in a manner that was previously unforeseen by commentators and scholars...The...

October 17, 2011 09:36:39 AM

Defense counsel for Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim rested its case on Monday in Anwar's sodomy trial, for which a verdict is expected by the end of the year....

September 26, 2011 09:00:00 AM

Farrell Miller, St. John's University School of Law Class of 2012, is the author of the fifth article in a ten part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development under the direction of Professor...

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