Jim Lobe
OneWorld US
Tue., Jun. 29, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 29 (OneWorld) - U.S. and international human rights groups have hailed Monday's Supreme Court's rulings that U.S. citizens and foreign nationals detained as "enemy combatants" by U.S. forces have the right to challenge their detention in federal court.
by Michel Chossudovsky
www.globalresearch.ca 25 June 2004
"Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen." (Mahatma Gandhi)
The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok." (William Rockler, Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor)
National Lawyers Guild 18 June 2004
2003 State of the Union Address Contained Implicit Admission
The National Lawyers Guild calls for the prosecution of President George W. Bush with a "command responsibility" theory of liability under the War Crimes Act. Bush can be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act or the Torture Statute, if he knew or should have known about the U.S. military's use of torture and failed to stop or prevent it. A comment in the President's January 2003 State of the Union Address contained an implicit admission by Bush that he had sanctioned the summary execution of many when he said: "All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries, and many others have met a different fate." "Let's put it this way," he continued, "they are no longer a problem for the United States and our friends and allies."
Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Person(s): Hamid Rashid Wali, Fran Sevilla, Hassan Karim
Target(s): journalist(s) , media worker(s)
Type(s) of violation(s): arrested , detained , killed
(RSF/IFEX) - An Iraqi technician from al-Jazeera television, Hamid Rashid Wali, was shot dead on the night of 20 May 2004 in Kerbala, during clashes between the United States (US) Army and Moqtada al-Sadr's Shiite militia, al-Jazeera said in Baghdad.
