The 2006 U.S. Military Commissions Act, dubbed "the torture act" by its critics, legalizes virtually every violation of human rights and international law the U.S. government is accused of committing since 9/11. These include secret and indefinite detentions without trial, enforced disappearances, denial and restriction of habeus corpus, withholding of evidence and finally, the use of evidence extracted under cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. It provides immunity for President George W. Bush and his cabinet for any violations of the U.S. War Crimes Act and narrows the scope of that act by not expressly criminalizing acts that constitute "outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating and degrading treatment. Water boarding" binds the prisoner to an inclin...
We have a clear memory, which disturbs us to this day, of watching a live Reuters feed of the Baghdad skyline that night in 2003 when the U.S. began its assault. A defenceless civilian population was subjected to the most horrific bombardment. The majority of Canadians were clear, even before our government of the day elected not to involve us, about where we stood on the Iraq war. The world, generally, has come to understand it as an illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of a sovereign country. Having to watch as Iraq's historical treasures were pillaged, as the country devolved into civil war, as foreign mercenaries ran amok and as torture became part of the daily business of the American military, has only served to solidify Canadians' collective opinion. Would that Bush, Rumsf...
...could be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. But our geography has...
...In 2004, he was charged with war crimes, but the U.S. trial is still pending. In 2003, age...Dynar, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 462; Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004); Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S....
His fellow condemned heard their fate with equal defiance. "It's all in the hand of the Almighty! It's all in the hands of the holy warriors!" shouted Taha Ramadan, [Saddam Hussein]'s former vice president, as guards pushed him out of the courtroom after announcement of his life sentence. Minutes earlier, at least six guards had surrounded former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, one of the defense lawyers, and hustled him out of the courtroom. "Get him out! Get him out!" [Abdul Rahman] shouted in English, outraged at a court filing submitted by Clark that apparently referred to the trial as a travesty. "He's coming from America to insult the Iraqi people and the court," the judge added in Arabic. The Shiite politicians who lead Iraq's coalition government went on television after the...
... committing wilful murder in the course of crimes against humanity. In the south, a Shiite Muslim fa...The Bush administration has been a leading opponent of inte...
That means [Hamdan], who earned about $200 a month as bin Laden's driver, will be the first defendant in a U.S. military war crimes trial since the Second World War. His case will be watched around the world, the subject of inevitable debate and future legal challenges. Canadian Omar Khadr, accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15, is to be tried on war crimes charges in October. Khadr's trial was the second with a start date set, after Hamdan's. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Hamdan drove bin Laden in a convoy of vehicles racing among safehouses as the U.S. tried to pinpoint the al-Qaida leader's whereabouts. He broke away in early October to evacuate his daughter and pregnant wife from Kandahar during the U.S.-led invasion.
... a legal odyssey that has severely tested the Bush administration's war-on-terror detention policies....
... action and the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity. This challenge continues to be a...(23) While the Bush administration became infamous for its connection ...
Democrats will be knocking down [George W. Bush]'s proposals left and right, and quite possibly initiating legislative investigations and a variety of hearings into allegations of wrongdoing in the executive branch. "If you know [Dick Cheney], you wouldn't think about impeaching Mr. Bush," [Charlie Rangel] told an interviewer, alluding to the the president's second-in-command. "There is going to be a lot of scrutiny on U.S. commitments overseas and the feeling that some U.S. troops should come home," says Christopher Sands, a senior analyst with the Canada Project at the Centre for Security and International Studies.
... -- bringing Bush to trial for "high crimes and misdemeanours" over the war in Iraq. . Califor...
...Bush , 542 U.S. 466 (2004), and Omar et al. v. Secretar... Part III of the National Defence Act, the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act , S.C. 2000 c....
... Khadr was charged in February 2007 for war crimes and terrorism under a military tribunal the Bush a...
The court declared 5-3 that the trials for 10 foreign terror suspects violate U.S. military law and the Geneva conventions. Among them is 19-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr, captured in Afghanistan in 2002 during the U.S.-led invasion. It seems likely to further fuel international criticism of the U.S. administration, including many U.S. allies, for its handling of the terror war detainees at Guantanamo in Cuba, Abu Ghraib in Iraq and elsewhere. The decision blocked a trial for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden. Hamdan, 36, has spent four years in the U.S. prison in Cuba. He faces a single count of conspiring to commit terrorism against U.S. citizens from 1996 to November 2001.
...Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military warr crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying in a s...
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