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UK Government Issues Major Statement on Legality of Humanitarian Intervention

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has submitted an official response to questions posed by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the legality of humanitarian…

Jan. 30, 2014 Ryan Goodman

President Bashir Is No Michelangelo

Earlier this week, President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, announced a “political…

Jan. 30, 2014 Beth Van Schaack

U.S. Operations Against al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda: The Targeting of Godane

As Sarah Knuckey’s post explains, CNN is reporting that the latest US drone strike in Somalia targeted Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of Al-Shabaab. Sarah asks whether the strike…

Jan. 28, 2014 Ryan Goodman

What rules is the US applying to its Somalia drone strikes?

CNN today provided the most detailed account yet of the latest U.S. drone strike, carried out this past weekend in Somalia. US officials (quoted anonymously by CNN) said the…

Jan. 28, 2014 Sarah Knuckey

First “Public” PRB Hearing Raises More Questions Than it Answers

As expected, today’s Periodic Review Board hearing, the first so-called “public” one of these events, was completely uneventful. In the case of Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel…

Jan. 28, 2014 Daphne Eviatar

Quasi-public Guantanamo Detainee Hearings Start Tomorrow

On Tuesday morning, select members of the media and human rights groups will, for the first time, be allowed to observe a portion of a Periodic Review Board hearing for a detainee…

Jan. 27, 2014 Daphne Eviatar

An Inauspicious Anniversary: It’s Time to Release the Report of the Special Interagency Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies

Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of President Obama’s Executive Order 13491 on ensuring lawful interrogations. The Order, one of the first acts of the Obama administration,…

Jan. 23, 2014 Derek Jinks

Understanding What it Means to be “Approved for Transfer”: A Response to Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal argues below that the Executive lacks any AUMF authority to continue to detain GTMO detainees who have either been approved for transfer by the GTMO Review Task…

Jan. 22, 2014 Marty Lederman

General Stanley McChrystal Discusses the Downsides of Drones

In an interview with BBC Radio 4, General Stanley McChrystal, the retired commander of forces in Afghanistan, stated his general view that the use of drones will and should increase.…

Jan. 22, 2014 Ryan Goodman

The Constitutional Case for Judicial Authority To Order the Transfer and Release of Guantánamo Detainees Cleared for Release

In the statement that he issued as he signed the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), President Obama, addressing the Act’s continuing restrictions on the transfer…

Jan. 22, 2014 Lawrence Rosenthal

Horrific New Evidence of Syrian War Crimes Emerges

The Guardian has published a piece describing the emergence of disturbing new evidence of the commission of “industrial scale war crimes” in Syrian detention centers. …

Jan. 21, 2014 Beth Van Schaack

Osama bin Laden’s Son-in-Law to Face Trial in NY Within a Year of His Arrest

Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Southern District of New York has been keeping busy. In just the last week, Judge Kaplan issued three decisions in the case of Osama bin Laden’s…

Jan. 16, 2014 Daphne Eviatar

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