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Yardsticks for Workers
Rights: Learning
from Experience
Assessing
the New Normal: Liberty and Security for the Post-September
11 United States
Holding
the Line: A Critique of the Department of State's (2002)
Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Beyond
Collusion: The U.K. Security Forces and the Murder of
Patrick Finucane
Refugees,
Rebels and The Quest for Justice
Fire
and Broken Glass:
The Rise of Antisemitism in Europe
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Courts Reject Administration's Detention Policies in War on Terrorism
2nd
Circuit Rules President Has No Authority to Detain Americans Without
Charge
The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit ruled 2-1 that the U.S. government must release
Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was seized on U.S. soil as an
enemy combatant, from military custody within 30 days. LCHR coordinated
three amicus briefs in the case. The court’s majority opinion,
issued December 18, echoed the basic arguments of a Lawyers Committee’s
brief -- co-signed by the Cato Institute and others - on the
President’s lack of authority
to detain U.S. citizens without charge.
Read
the decision
Read LCHR press statement
Background on the Padilla case
Guantanamo
Detainees Have Right To Habeas Appeals in US Courts Says 9th Circuit
The Lawyers Committee welcomes the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit establishing that U.S. courts have the authority
to hear the claims of Guantanamo Bay detainees who allege they are
being unlawfully held. More»
Prosecuting
Hussein
Tribunal Faces Challenges
to Legitimacy
The arrest of Saddam Hussein gives new urgency
to a proposal by the Iraqi Governing Council to create a special tribunal
to try those responsible for gross human rights violations. The Lawyers
Committee supports the creation of a tribunal to prosecute these crimes.
But in order for the tribunal to be successful it must address several
key challenges. More»
Read
Fiona McKay's Op-Ed "Give Hussein Due Process" in the Miami
Herald
Brief
Overview of the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity
Guatemala:
Inter-American Court Rules in Favor of Mack
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hailed the decision of the
Inter-American Court for Human Rights in the Myrna Mack case as a
victory for human rights in Guatemala. Myrna Mack, a Guatemalan anthropologist
was killed in 1990. The Mack case, which remains before the domestic
criminal courts, has become a symbol of the prevailing impunity in
Guatemala for serious human rights abuses committed in the country
by members of the security forces. More»
Background
information on Myrna Mack case
More information
on human rights defenders
in Guatemala
Detainees
Abused in Brooklyn Detention
Center DOJ
Report Says
Guards at an immigration detention facility in Brooklyn physically
and verbally abused immigrants who were detained in the aftermath
of 9/11, according to a new report released by the Department of Justice's
Inspector General. More»
The
Case
of Yaser Hamdi
Pentagon
Allows Hamdi to see Lawyer
Read Deborah Pearlstein's
Op-Ed "Detained at the whim of the president" in the International
Herald Tribune
The Defense Department said on Tuesday that Yaser Hamdi, an American
citizen who has been held in incommunicado military confinement for
nearly two years, will be allowed access to a lawyer.
Read LCHR statement on Pentagon
decision to allow Hamdi access to lawyer
Former POWs Urge Supreme
Court to Hear U.S. Citizen Detainee’s Appeal
Former U.S. prisoners of war, including Ambassador Douglas “Pete”
Peterson, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Dec. 3 in the U.S. Supreme
Court in support of Yaser Hamdi’s challenge to his indefinite,
incommunicado detention. More»
Read
the Amicus Brief
LCHR
Urges Pentagon to Open Military Commission Trials
to NGO Observers
The Lawyers Committee is urging the Pentagon to
resolve whether and under what circumstances non-governmental organizations
would be permitted to observe military commission trials, which Pentagon
officials have suggested are soon to commence.
Read
full text of letter
Background on military commissions
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