Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-l4ctd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-30T05:20:18.223Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Remarks by Frits Kalshoven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Frits Kalshoven*
Affiliation:
Emeritus, University of Leiden

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Are There Some Individuals Bereft of All Legal Protection?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The Commission has not published the correspondence. In Press Release No. 12/02 on the closure of its 114th regular session (Feb. 25-Mar. 15), an annex listing the precautionary measures decided by the Commission mentions “Detainees in the Guantánamo Base, United States.” However, the whole dossier may be found on the Web site of the Center for Constitutional Rights, at <http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/september_llth/septllArticle.asp?ObjID=71t0qaX9CP&Content=134>.

2 Note dated Mar. 12, 2002.

3 Reply dated April 12, 2002.

4 Art. 106(1).

5 Las Palmeras Case, Preliminary Objections, Judgement No. 67, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Feb. 4, 2000.

6 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

9 LaGrand case (Germany v. United States), 2001 ICJ 104 (Judgment).

10 Petition of Jan. 20, 2002, claiming that “the detainees have been deprived of their liberty without due process of law, have not been informed of the nature and cause of the accusations against them or afforded the assistance of counsel, and are being held by the United States government in violation of the United States Constitution and the Third Geneva Convention.”

11 Decision of Feb. 21, 2002, Coalition of Clergy v. Bush, 189 F. Supp. 2d 1036, 1039 (CD. Cal. 2002).

12 Opinion of Nov. 18, 2002, Coalition of Clergy, Lawyers & Law Professors v. Bush, 310 F.3d 1153 (9th Cir.2002). On May 19, 2003, the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari.

13 Khaled A.F. Al Odah, et al. v. United States of America, et al., No. 02-5251, consolidated with Nos. 02-5284, 02-5288, (D.C. Cir., decided Mar. 11, 2003).

14 Johnson v. Eisenträger, 339 U.S. 763 (1950), at 777-78.

15 Cases 03-334 (Rasul v. Bush), 03-343 (Al Odah v. U.S.), petitions for writs of certiorari granted by the U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 10, 2003, 540 U.S. 1003.

16 Ibid., Brief for the National Institute of Military Justice as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners (Jan. 2004).