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GITMOとjusticeに関するScatterbrainのブックマーク (4)

  • Barack Obama under pressure over 9/11 terror trials

    Leading Republicans have demanded that Barack Obama scrap plans to try the organisers of the 9/11 attacks in civilian courts after a New York jury acquitted an alleged terrorist of more than 200 murder charges over al-Qaida's bombing of US embassies in east Africa. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's conviction on the sole charge of conspiracy to destroy government property in the 1998 bombings has reignited

    Barack Obama under pressure over 9/11 terror trials
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    Scatterbrain 2010/11/19
    "This is a tragic wake-up call to the Obama administration to immediately abandon its ill-advised plan to try Guantánamo terrorists [in civilian courts]," he said. "We must treat them as wartime enemies and try them in military commissions at Guantánamo."
  • Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani cleared of 284 terror charges

    A US jury finds former Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani not guilty on all but one count in the African embassy bombings of 1998 guardian.co.uk Barack Obama's plans to try accused terrorists in civilian courts experienced a major setback last night when the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in one was convicted on just one of 285 charges over the 1998 attack on US embassies in

    Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani cleared of 284 terror charges
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    Scatterbrain 2010/11/18
    The failure to convict Ghailani on the more serious charges is also a blow to Obama's attempts to persuade a sceptical Congress and security establishment that civilian trials are better than the widely condemned military tribunals held at the Guantánamo detention centre. The trial was considered a
  • Pure Kafka - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

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    Scatterbrain 2010/06/02
    In other words: of course we'll provide a fair tribunal for proving your guilt -- as long as we're certain we can convict you -- otherwise, we'll just imprison you indefinitely without charges. All this even though 72% of Guantanamo detainees have been found to be wrongfully held since the Supreme
  • さらにその後のグアンタナモ収容所: 極東ブログ

    前回関連のエントリ「その後のグアンタナモ収容所」(参照)を書いてから一年も経っていないが、さらにその後のグアンタナモ収容所はどうなっているだろうか。少し動きがあったので、忘れないうちにメモ書きしておきたい。 昨年のエントリで私はこう書いた。 グアンタナモ収容所問題は日に関係ないと見なされているのか、あるいはオバマ大統領の公約について日で報道された後は、その通り閉鎖されてしまったと思われているのか、その後の経緯はなかなか日では報道されないが、アムネスティの勝利が確実になるように、今後の動向を見続けていたい。 さらにその後だが、あまり日では報道されていない。ブッシュ政権下ではあれほど報道されていたのに、しかもオバマ大統領はグアンタナモ収容所閉鎖を公約としていたのに、その後どうなったのだろうか。 私は見なかったのだが、5月17日TBSニュースバード「ニュースの視点」と「グアンタナモ・ダイ

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