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USA: Senate debates Republican proposal on interrogation policies

Aug 8, 2005

Republican Senators led by Senator McCain proposed new legislation to prohibit interrogation techniques that amount to torture or ill-treatment. The proposal also bars techniques of interrogation not authorized by the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation...

USA: Court paves way for resumption of military commissions

Aug 8, 2005

On 16 July a US Court of Appeals reversed an earlier ruling by a US District Court that had halted proceedings by military commissions. In the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, alleged former driver and bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden, the Court of Appeals ruled that trials by...

Canada: UN experts say security detainees’ rights are undermined

Aug 8, 2005

Following its visit to Canada in June, the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention expressed concern at the detention of foreigners certified under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act as posing a threat to national security. The UN experts considered that this...

Uganda: Parliament rejects establishment of special courts for terrorism cases

Aug 8, 2005

On 15 July, the Parliament rejected the Government’s constitutional reform proposal to establish special courts to try terrorist suspects. The Parliament followed a recommendation by the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee that special courts would not be more...

Tunisia: Six men convicted under anti-terror law

Aug 8, 2005

On 3 July, the Tunis Appeals Court sentenced six men to up to 20 years imprisonment for recruiting and training militants to carry out terrorist attacks in Iraq and for belonging to a terrorist group based abroad. All defendants denied the charges and said they had...