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Military Commissions: Trials Could Begin Soon
Rules Still Deeply Flawed
| The Bush
Administration took one more step toward initiating military commissions
when it designated six prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as “enemy combatants”
on July 3. The
Economist last week called these commissions, “wrong—illiberal,
unjust and likely to be counter-productive for the war against terrorism.”
LCHR believes the Department of Defense rules governing the commissions
should be "revised or revoked." LCHR's Background Paper on the Commissions |
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U.K. police failed to
effectively investigate allegations that the British Army and the
police in Northern Ireland played a prominent role in the 1989 targeting
and murder of a Belfast human rights lawyer, the European Court of
Human Rights ruled recently. The ruling relates to the shooting death
of Patrick Finucane, a lawyer who represented clients on both sides
of the Northern Ireland conflict. No one has been successfully prosecuted
in the case. More»
Read the Court's Ruling LCHR's report on Finucane case |
| Harsh prison sentences,
of up to 28 years, imposed this spring on human rights activists and
other dissidents by the Cuban government were upheld by the Cuban
Supreme Court recently. The dissidents, who appear to have been jailed
solely for expressing their political views, are being held in substandard
conditions - in small, dimly lit cells with poor ventilation. Medical
treatment has also been denied to at least two critically ill dissidents.
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| The U.S.
released a list of 50 countries recently to which aid may be suspended
because they have not signed bilateral agreements exempting Americans
from possible prosecution by the International Criminal Court. More» |
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