The US Treasury and the UN announced sanctions against a supposed al-Qaeda leader who also is Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law for serving as a top financial official in the terror organization.
The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging the government’s Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) program, under which Anwar al-Awlaqi has been targeted for death.
US senators are demanding that BP face a criminal investigation into its possible role in freeing convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as a kickback for a Libyan oil deal.
US Judge John G. Koeltl decided to increase the sentence of attorney Lynne Stewart, 70, from 28 months to 10 years, citing her lack of remorse for distributing a client’s press release.
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the section of the PATRIOT Act criminalizing speech on behalf of groups designated “terrorist organizations” does not violate the First Amendment.
Physicians for Human Rights is presenting evidence that doctors and officials performed human experimentation and research on individuals in CIA detention, in violation of the Nuremberg Code.
The Obama Justice Department weighed in for the first time on the case of Canadian citizen and “rendition” victim Maher Arar, calling for the Supreme Court not to hear his appeal.
In a sign that the administration is preparing a return to military tribunals at Guantánamo, the Pentagon installed a retired admiral with international law experience to run the war court.
Authorities in Spain have moved to suspend investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzón—just as he has opened a probe of John “torture memo” Yoo and other Bush administration figures.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, on whether the law prohibiting material support to terrorism violates the First Amendment.
Two human rights groups released documents confirming that planes associated with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003.
The White House is considering a law to allow the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects to break a logjam with Congress over closure of Guantánamo, said Sen. Lindsey Graham.
