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United States: Supreme Court decides to review detainees’ rights to challenge their detention

Jun 8, 2007

Reconsidering its 2 April 2007 decision, the US Supreme Court decided on 29 June to review the cases of two groups of Guantánamo Bay detainees later in the year. Following this ruling, lower courts have refused to dismiss other habeas corpus cases, pending the Supreme...

United States: New Executive Order on detention and interrogation issued

Jun 8, 2007

On 20 July, President Bush signed an Executive Order on the application of common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to a detention and interrogation programme operated by the CIA. Several NGOs criticized the order for affirming that the programme complies with US...

Israel/OPT: UN expert on counter-terrorism and human rights visits Israel and OPT

Jun 8, 2007

UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in early July. In his preliminary findings, he raises a number of concerns about Israeli policies and practices, including the construction of the wall in...

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood trial before military court adjourned again

Jun 8, 2007

On 3 June, international and national trial observers were banned from observing the first session of the military trial of 33 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The defendants were not formally charged, but received a list of offences relating to financing of...

Italy: European Court of Human Rights hears case on deportation to risk of torture

Jun 6, 2007

On 11 July, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held a hearing in the case of Nassim Saadi, a Tunisian national convicted of terrorism offences in Italy in 2005 who risks deportation to Tunisia, where he claims that he will be subjected to torture...