Sentences with phrase «of military tribunal»

Teesdale has released a short documentary video in which, on a beach in Guantanamo bay, he explains that hospital worker and teacher Adel Hamad has been held for years in detention and denied release even after a member of the military tribunal reviewing his case called his incarceration «unconscionable.»

Capitalizing on a deep pool of talent, resources and commitment, the firms successfully challenged the issue of the legality of the military tribunals all the way up to the Supreme Court, garnering deserved accolades, while fending off efforts by former Assistant Defense Department Secretary Cully Stimson to intimidate the firms into dropping the detainees» cases.

In fact, so far as Articles 25 and 38 are concerned, this seems obvious for all types of military tribunals.

So, there would be little benefit to be gained from suspending the writ of habeas corpus in order to allow the use of military tribunals rather than civilian courts to punish civilian participants in a coup.

Not exact matches

The prime suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen will face a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, US defense officials say.

But with the massive and U.S. - dominated military response, and with the talk of American military tribunals, this option is no longer a possibility.

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.

Yet President Bush's order creating military tribunals to try those suspected of links to terrorism has aroused little public uproar.

Israel uses military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, although according to the US Supreme Court, this is a proper interpretation of the rules of war and terror suspects are not entitled to further considerations.

Greatest short cut When he was there as military head of state, most of the politicians were sent to confront tribunals and tribunals jailed many of them for hundreds of years.

The father of late Harun, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and writer who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.

Bush — yes; Obama — yes Military tribunals instead of open trials for terror suspects?

In 2006, a Russian military tribunal had convicted Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's foreign intelligence service, of treason.

It «tells the story of Confederate sympathizer Mary Surratt (Robin Wright Penn), who was tried as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, and Col. Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy), who reluctantly agreed to defend her before a military tribunal.»

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.

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.

As I researched the topic further, I discovered a trail of romance and tragedy, deceptive dealings by J. Edgar Hoover, and a secret military tribunal convened by FDR.

In October 1995 a military tribunal tried and convicted Saro - Wiwa of murder.

I'm not aware of any federal controls over the attorney - client relationship or attorney - client privilege (except with regard to the recent encroachment on attorney - client communications in the representation of enemy combatants in connection with Guantanamo and Bush administration military tribunals).

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.

The first stage provides 6,755 pages of documents relating to the Medical Case, which was case 1 of the trials conducted by the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (USA v. Karl Brandt et al.), as well as analysis of many documents relating to cases 2 (USA v. Erhard Milch) and 4 (USA v. Oswald Pohl et al.).

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, arrested last Christmas for trying to explode a bomb on a plane arriving in Detroit, has begun talking again to authorities, officials said Tuesday, a development that only ratcheted up the debate over whether he should be tried in federal court or before a military tribunal...» My understanding is that he is cooperating,» she said, «that they have gotten useful information out of him.

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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).

Based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Military Tribunals (aka the Combatant Status Review Tribunals or CSRTs)

They are tribunals whose determinations are reviewable by the military authorities either as provided in the military orders constituting such tribunals or as provided by the Articles of War.

Article 12 makes triable by general court martial «any other person who, by the law of war, is [triable] by military tribunals.»

It thus adopted the system of military common law applied by military tribunals so far as it should be recognized and deemed applicable by the courts, and as further defined and supplemented by the Hague Convention, to which the United States and the Axis powers were parties.

«The offences cognizable by military commissions may thus be classed as follows: (1) Crimes and statutory offences cognizable by State or U.S. courts, and which would properly be tried by such courts if open and acting; (2) Violations of the laws and usages of war cognizable by military tribunals only; (3) Breaches of military orders or regulations for which offenders are not legally triable by court - martial under the Articles of War.»

appropriate military tribunals, of such Japanese war criminals «as have been or may be apprehended.»

10, of the Constitution to «define and punish... Offenses against the Law of Nations...» of which the law of war is a part, had, by the Articles of War (10 U.S.C. § § 1471 - 1593), recognized the «military commission» appointed by military command, as it had previously existed in United States Army practice, as an appropriate tribunal for the trial and punishment of offenses against the law of war.

Also, the post-9-11 experience has been that, contrary to common belief, civilian courts are actually a faster way of resolving cases of non-uniformed persons who commit violent, war - like acts than military tribunals and impose penalties that are just as harsh as those imposed by military tribunals.

Any person charged with an offence has the right... (f) except in the case of an offence under military law tried before a military tribunal, to the benefit of trial by jury where the maximum punishment for the offence is imprisonment for five years or a more severe punishment;

In some parts of the country, during the war of 1812, our officers made arbitrary arrests and, by military tribunals, tried citizens who were not in the military service.