3 hours ago by Daphne Eviatar

Here’s a nice catch by Dafna Linzer at ProPublica. At yesterday’s press conference, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs made two statements about the Obama administration’s connection to the more than 200 Guantanamo detainees left at the prison camp. First, Gibbs told reporters that more transfers of ...

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3 hours ago by Daphne Eviatar

Among the objections from Congressional Republicans to transferring Guantanamo detainees from Cuba to Illinois is the fear that the prisoners will suddenly have many more rights by virtue of being on U.S. soil. But is that true? Actually, it’s not clear, Scott Silliman, a professor at Duke Universit ...

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4 hours ago by Daphne Eviatar

Since the Supreme Court ruled last year that detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo have the right to habeas corpus — that is, the right to challenge their detention in court — hundreds of detainees have taken advantage, filing petitions in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Today, ...

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8 hours ago by zaxi

Grani.ru Правозащитный центр "Мемориал" полностью возобновил свою деятельность в Чечне. Как сообщает Газета.Ru, об этом на пресс-конференции в Европарламенте по окончании церемонии вручения премии имени Андрея Сахарова за 2009 год заявил руководитель центра Олег Орлов. Деятельность "Мемориала" на те ...

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10 hours ago by gazzara

In an announcement that dropped into my inbox late on Monday afternoon Zenimax announced that publisher Bethesda has taken the IP Rage from EA. ID software, sold to media group ZeniMax earlier in the year has a history of great shooters including Doom, Quake etc had IP after the sale that was still ...

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11 hours ago by KillerSneak

December 15, 2009 (Rockville, MD) – ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of id Software, announced today that it has picked up the publishing rights for RAGE™, the video game under development at id Software. RAGE will be published by Bethesda Softworks, another ZeniMax subsidiary. As a result, Electr ...

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11 hours ago by dollarcoinworld

THE BILL OF RIGHTS Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution ________________________________________ The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and res ...

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11 hours ago by Axel Hotels

Washington DC - there's hope! Today, D.C.’s Council made it official and same-sex marriage is now legal in the district by a final vote of 11-2! The victory for equal rights prompted public witnesses in the Council chambers to cheer and applaud. The bill, which may be signed into law by D.C.’s mayor ...

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13 hours ago by Bads33d

This post has been floating in my head a while now. A few weeks ago, the Australian Federal Government Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee published its report into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009. To put this into perspective for overseas visitors to my blog, Aus ...

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15 hours ago by Guest Bloggers

Women in North Africa have made tremendous progress in promoting and upholding their rights. Women in this region—commonly known as the Maghreb—are at the forefront of the Arab world in terms of individual rights and gender equality, and constitute models for other Arab women to follow. A number of ...

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