Live Breaking News & Updates on Alliance For Open Society
Stay updated with breaking news from Alliance for open society. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The U.S. Tuesday filed assurances on the death penalty and the 1st Amendment, the latter of which Stella Assange called a “non-assurance.” Joe Lauria, in London, Consortium News, 17 Apr 24, https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/16/us-issues-assurances-assange/ The United States Embassy on Tuesday filed two assurances with the British Foreign Office saying it would not seek the death penalty against… ....
The High Court ruled the U.S. must assure free speech and no death penalty for Julian Assange or the court might have to free the publisher who marked five years in prison today, reports Joe Lauria.
By Joe Lauria in London Special to Consortium News
The High Court ruled the U.S. must assure free speech and no death penalty for Julian Assange or the court might have to free the publisher who marked five years in prison today, reports Joe Lauria.
By Joe Lauria in London Special to Consortium News
Al-Hela v. Biden and Due Process at Guantanamo A photo of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House, which houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (NCinDC, https://flic.kr/p/gcj6HV; CC BY-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/) On April 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman Al-Hela’s petition for a rehearing en banc to consider his claim for habeas corpus relief under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. This vacated a 2020 panel opinion that had rejected al-Hela’s claims on the grounds that, as a nonresident alien without presence or property in the United States, he possessed no constitutional due process rights. Granting rehearing positions the en banc D.C. Circuit to potentially confront the question of whether the Due Process Clause reaches the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, an issue that it has thus far avoided deciding ....