USA: Hearings Begin at Guantánamo Bay

Military court proceedings for four detainees, two Yemenis, a Sudanese and an Australian currently held at the US army base began on 25 August and lasted four days. The detainees are being tried under the Military Order on the Detention, Treatment, and Trial of...

Colombian Constitutional Court Rules Anti-terror Law Unconstitutional

On 30 August, following a challenge by the Colombian Commission of Jurists, an ICJ affiliate, and other NGOs, the Colombian Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional Legislative Act N∞2 2003, which granted judicial police powers to the military in cases of...
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