Helsingin Sanomat / STT (2009-11-30)
Monet oikeuslaitoksen kärkinimet suomivat oikeusministeriötä kovin sanoin oikeusturvan puutteiden vähättelystä ja asenneongelmasta, kertoo Savon Sanomat.
Savon Sanomat ja kolme muuta maakuntalehteä lähettivät sähköpostikyselyn Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuimen (EIT) tuomioista 15:lle suomalaiselle oikeus- ja ihmisoikeusalan asiantuntijalle. Heistä kymmenen vastasi kyselyyn.
Korkeimman oikeuden presidentin Pauliine Koskelon mielestä on häpeä, ettei oikeusturva toimi Suomessa niin kuin pitäisi. Hänen [...]

TruthOut.org / Andy Worthington (2009-11-17)
With just over two months to go until President Obama’s deadline for the closure of Guantanamo, the administration has finally woken up to the necessity of actually doing something to facilitate the prison’s closure by announcing on Friday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners accused of involvement in the [...]

San Francisco Chronicle / Jamie Rowen (2009-11-18)
I just returned from Sarajevo where there were daily updates on the trial of Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Amid efforts to consolidate the fragile state, constantly undermined by nationalistic leaders in the country, opening statements reminded the Bosniak (Muslim) [...]

Just over a month after extending the 9/11 national emergency for another year, President Obama announced another federal emergency on Saturday over the worsening H1N1, or swine flu situation.

A judge cited national security concerns in ruling Wednesday that the CIA does not have to release hundreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods.

Seven former heads of the CIA on Friday urged President Barack Obama to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners held by the agency, arguing that it would hamper intelligence operations.

There exists an explosive hot-button issue that U.S. government officials don’t want revealed to the American public; namely, that internment camps have been established—and are at the ready to detain citizens if mass insurrections occur.

The Internet is abuzz with news about the construction of internment camps all across America. Of course, “mainstream” media outlets refuse to touch the subject; or if they do, they pooh-pooh the story; they do what Glenn Beck recently did: try to debunk the story as fallacious and impugn people who speak of it as “conspiracy nuts.” The fact that the Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs, and O’Reillys of the media circus refuse to deal with the construction of large numbers of internment camps does not make them disappear, however.

The Raw Story / Stephen C. Webster (2009-06-13)
Former Bush administration attorney John Yoo was ordered on Friday by a federal judge in San Francisco to testify in an appeal brought by Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was held for more than three years and allegedly tortured while in U.S. military custody.
Yoo was one of [...]

The Obama administration is considering seeking a change in the special U.S. military trials for terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to allow those who face the death penalty to plead guilty without getting a full trial, the New York Times reported Friday.