Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Here is the complaint against Yoo
http://howappealing.law.com/PadillaVsYooComplaint.pdf
No Comments » - Posted in Civil and Political Rights,United States by Sean
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Padilla sues John Yoo for torture
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that US citizen Jose Padilla filed a lawsuit in a California federal district court this morning against former deputy assistant Attorney General John Yoo: “The suit filed this morning in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, turns the spotlight of blame on Yoo, the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Civil and Political Rights,Terrorism,United States by Sean
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Cambodia Genocide Tribunal
The UN tribunal for the Cambodian genocide is getting off to a terribly slow start. On December 25, the BBC had a piece about Buddhist monks marching on the courthouse to pressure them to begin having trials……With all the bad things going on in the world now, maybe it’s hard to be excited about something that happened […]
No Comments » - Posted in Asia/Pacific by Bill
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Navy JAG Andrew Williams Resigns Over Torture
Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Williams, a JAG officer with the U.S. Naval Reserve, recently resigned his commission over the alleged use of torture by the United States and the destruction of video tapes said to contain instances of that torture. As ThinkProgress reported in December, Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Sean
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Genocidaires beware . . .
From Jurist: The Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 [text, PDF] modifies Section 1091, Title 18 USC [text], which had limited genocide prosecution to US nationals or to offenses by non-nationals committed inside the US. The new law will add aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, stateless persons whose habitual residence is in the US, and […]
