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USA: Lawyer imprisoned for providing material support to terrorist

Nov 17, 2006

On 16 October, Lynne Stewart, a civil rights lawyer, was sentenced to 28-months imprisonment for conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists. She was found guilty for enabling Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, her client convicted for conspiracy to commit a...

USA: US citizen indicted on charges of treason and material support to terrorism

Nov 17, 2006

On 11 October, Adam Gadahn, a US citizen, was indicted on charges of treason and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization for making a series of propaganda videotapes for al-Qaeda. They are the first treason charges to be brought against a US...

USA: Broad powers to designate terrorist groups or individuals ruled unconstitutional

Nov 17, 2006

On 28 November, a district court ruled that parts of the Executive Order authorizing the freezing of assets of suspected terrorists and terrorist organizations, were vague and therefore unconstitutional. The Order, issued by the President in the immediate aftermath of...

USA/Germany: Complaint filed against former Defence Secretary Rumsfeld for war crimes

Nov 17, 2006

On 14 November, several human rights organizations filed a criminal complaint in a German Court on behalf of eleven Iraqis held at Abu-Ghraib and one Afghan detainee held at Guantánamo Bay. The organizations request the German Federal Prosecutor to open an...

USA: Military Commissions Act enters into force

Nov 17, 2006

On 17 October, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act (MCA), which authorizes trials of terrorist suspects by military commissions. The MCA also contains provisions that impose severe restrictions on terrorist suspects’ rights to challenge any...