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USA: Disclosure of CIA tracking of international bank transactions

Apr 16, 2006

On 23 June, US newspapers reported the existence of a CIA program tracking financial transactions recorded on the database of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT). Government officials defended the program as legal and necessary to...

USA: Supreme Court rules military commissions illegal

Apr 16, 2006

On 29 June, in Hamdan v, Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that military commissions, established by the President to try terrorist suspects detained at Guantánamo Bay, violated US military law and the Geneva Conventions. The Court ruled that President Bush had no...

Mary Robinson delivers lecture on the rule of law after 9/11

Apr 16, 2006

On 20 March, Mary Robinson, ICJ Commissioner and member of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, delivered the annual JUSTICE international rule of law lecture in London, entitled “Five years on from 9/11- time to reassert...

Council of Europe rejects drafting of guidelines on diplomatic assurances

Apr 16, 2006

On 3 April, the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Human Rights issued its report on human rights implications of diplomatic assurances in the context of expulsion procedures. The Committee decided not to develop minimum standards for the use of diplomatic...

Council of Europe releases reports on CIA flights and secret detention centres

Apr 16, 2006

On 1 March, the Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General, Terry Davis issued his interim report on allegations of CIA-run secret prisons and flights in Europe. The report criticized the inadequacy of effective oversight of the activities of foreign agencies on the...