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.
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.
However, the
military tribunal ruled in Desmond's favor after his World War I veteran father (Hugo Weaving) showed up to testify
on his behalf.
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).
«Despite assuring Congress that career
military lawyers are helping design new trials for accused terrorists, the Bush administration has limited their input
on their key request, that any
tribunals must give detainees the right to see the evidence against them, officials said.»
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.»
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.
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.
Based
on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo
Military Tribunals (aka the Combatant Status Review
Tribunals or CSRTs)
If the
military tribunals have lawful authority to hear, decide, and condemn, their action is not subject to judicial review merely because they have made a wrong decision
on disputed facts.