United States: Former Guantánamo military lawyer sentenced for leaking names of detainees
On 18 May, US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, former Guantánamo military lawyer, was sentenced to six months in prison by a court martial. He was found guilty of leaking names of detainees held at the detention centre to a human rights lawyer from the New York based...United States: Boeing subsidiary faces charges over role in CIA renditions
On 30 May, a lawsuit was filed before the US District Court for the District of Northern California on behalf of three victims of the US-led rendition programme. The lawsuit was filed against Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing, for its role in their renditions to Egypt,...
“The widening gyre: counter-terrorism, human rights and the Rule of Law” – a lecture by Justice Chaskalson
Text of a lecture given by Justice Arthur Chaskalson, President of the International Commission of Jurists and Chair of the Eminent Jurists Panel at the Faculty of Law in Cambridge on Friday 11 May 2007, as the Seventh Sir David Williams Lecture.
The lecture was entitled: “The Widening Gyre: Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law”.
widening gyre-events-2007 (full text, PDF)
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