{"id":411293,"date":"2010-03-10T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:42:34","slug":"shocker-un-special-rapporteurs-oppose-military-commission-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411293","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: UN Special Rapporteurs Oppose Military Commission Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not exactly surprised to read <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6283I420100309\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is reviewing options to bring the 9\/11 detainees to justice and U.S. officials said on Friday senior administration officials may recommend that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects in the 2001 attacks face a military trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take the view that the Military Commissions Act is fundamentally flawed. It is very far from international fair trial standards and probably cannot be fixed,&#8221; said Martin Scheinin, U.N. special rapporteur on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But I am surprised just how little the opinion of these rapporteurs matter in the burgeoning U.S. debate over where to try the 9\/11 terrorists. No one in the Obama Administration seems to care much. I wonder if they have even bothered to issue a rebuttal. \u00a0After all, the current military commission system was amended in accordance with proposals from the Obama Administration, supposedly to make them compliant with domestic and international standards. \u00a0A rebuttal seems necessary at some point. \u00a0Another task for our <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.law.yale.edu\/faculty\/HKoh.htm\">State Department&#8217;s Legal Adviser<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/x2BOwVeSM_E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku I&#8217;m not exactly surprised to read this: United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. The White House is reviewing options to bring the 9\/11 detainees to justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}