Sentences with phrase «military tribunals at»

The Oath Director: Laura Poitras Filmed in Yemen, The Oath tells the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison who is the first man to face the controversial military tribunals at Guantanamo.

Not exact matches

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

The historian Josephus records, in both The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews, that an unarmed crowd came before Pilate's tribunal at coastal Caesarea to demand that he remove from Jerusalem the pagan images on his military standards.

Amongst them is Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the lone woman, owner of a boarding house where the men planned their attack, and mother of the only conspirator to escape the manhunt, who is to stand before a military tribunal, at which Aiken has agreed to defend her.

The ruling is one of four that, in my view at least, repudiate the notion that the US Gov» t can arrest people indefinitely without a real trial and real trial means real — constitutionally valid — trial, even if it's a military tribunal.

In this CNN story, Kendall Coffey, a former US Attorney viewed the verdict as a «critical vindication» for DOJ and at the same time, raises questions about whether military tribunals are necessary.

As summarized by the SCOTUS Blog, in a 5 - 3 the Court held that President Bush did not have authority to set up the tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and found the commissions illegal under both military justice law and the Geneva conventions.

The Nuremberg Tribunal considered a number of factors relevant to its conclusion that the authors of particular prohibitions incur individual responsibility: the clear and unequivocal recognition of the rules of warfare in international law and State practice indicating an intention to criminalize the prohibition, including statements by government officials and international organizations, as well as punishment of violations by national courts and military tribunals (id., at 445 - 47, 467).

And also at TNR Online, Spencer Ackerman has an essay entitled «Down By Law: Inside Guantanamo's military tribunal.»