Senior Research Fellow, Law Faculty, University of Geneva -- Associate Research Fellow, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined December 2009
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Huge congrats to editors @LieberCode @DuncanHollis @JaiChristian. I am honored to have contributed to each of these timely and important volumes.
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The #EU Digital Service Act offers hope for increased data access for researchers that can help counter #disinformation, writes @StevenJBarela. justsecurity.org/83622/dawni…
Delighted to see my piece go live @just_security. Too much chaos in the real world. New DSA offers an avenue to study the roots of disorder online.
justsecurity.org/83622/dawni…
Plan now for a stellar conference this fall on the #MéndezPrinciples on #EffectiveInterviewing & bridging the gap between science and interrogation @glynco @mariahartwig
Join @JohnJayCollege center @AletheiaFX September 27 in DC for a conference on bridging the gap between the science and practice of #interrogation.
Find the program here: cailaw.org/Other-Programs/Ev…
And register for free, online: cailaw.org/eventRegistration…
#JJCResearch @CAIL_LAW
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Interview practices have been slower to change in the U.S. In 2006, the ISB reviewed the practices utilized to obtain information by military intelligence officers and found that they were “largely devoid of any scientific validity” (@CAMeissner & Fallon, 2015). @AletheiaFX
Criminal investigation and the art of the interview gcordner.wordpress.com/2022/…
Important development: Biden admin categorically rejects any use of torture evidence in GTMO case. Time for thorough review of all cases.
Of interest to many, and specifically @GaggioliGloria @pavle_kilibarda for great work on int'l question
justsecurity.org/80047/biden…
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The statement follows the @ICRC's most recent visit to Guantanamo, held last month. The organization says there have been 139 delegation trips to the Navy base since Camp X-Ray opened in January 2002 -- to meet with both prisoners and prison leadership.
(Red Cross handout photo)
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"The humanitarian rationale for enabling those to leave who are cleared to do so is obvious, and all the more so for those whose departures have been delayed for so long."
--International Red Cross DC chief urging White House to move on Gitmo transfers.
icrc.org/en/document/icrc-ca…
It is inexcusable that after 20 years of a legal black hole at #GTMO, Biden admin has "barely begun efforts" to transfer detainees and close facility.
A Rare Public Wake-Up Call from the ICRC on Guantanamo Transfers justsecurity.org/79899/a-rar…
- 13 Recommendations to shutter #Guantanamo #GTMO
"It is time ... to step up and end this stain on our collective political and legal consciousness for the surviving family members, our nation, and our reputation as a people that believe in and uphold the #RuleOfLaw."
#PressRelease: On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay (#GTMO) detention facility, CERL releases 13 recommendations on how to shutter the prison. Read more here - mailchi.mp/c70c6ec97d96/how-…
#RuleofLaw #CloseGuantanamo
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#BreakingNews
Please read & retweet @PennCERL Working Group Statement
- 13 Recommendations to shutter the #Guantanamo Bay gulag
- #GTMO is a failed experiment
- restore the #RuleOfLaw
- with actionable steps for President Biden & Congress.
#TruthMatters #JusticeMatters
#PressRelease: On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay (#GTMO) detention facility, CERL releases 13 recommendations on how to shutter the prison. Read more here - mailchi.mp/c70c6ec97d96/how-…
#RuleofLaw #CloseGuantanamo
Very much looking forward to joining @NilsMelzer Barbara Bernath @apt_geneva and Ruth Ssekindi @UHRC_UGANDA to discuss the #MéndezPrinciples on #EffectiveInterviewing for #HumanRightsDay2021
On this years' #HumanRightsDay, we will be at the @Geneva_Academy to discuss the impact of the #MéndezPrinciples on human rights advancement.
Join our SG, Barbara Bernath, @NilsMelzer, @StevenJBarela & Ruth Ssekindi @UHRC_UGANDA.
Register here: ow.ly/93Xo50H30YM
Sharp and powerful letter to Senate Judiciary by @glynco, Interim Exec Directoter @PennCERL, outlining extremely important policy doc coming from institute on closing #Guantanamo. Well worth a read as we soon arrive at 20 years of broken justice.
Following #PrePub review, Project Aletheia Co-Founder @glynco submitted a Statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on Closing #Guantanamo: 20 Years of Injustice.
#TruthMatters #BeTheChange
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Good luck @MarkSZaidEsq -#PrePub #censorship to manipulate the minds of the public must cease. I’m appealing redactions of matters of public record & previously cleared material in “The End of Innocence”, about the legacy of #Guantanamo & #torture. #TruthMatters @knightcolumbia
1/Today we filed #1stAmendment lawsuit in U.S. District Court in DC against @DeptofDefense challenging delays in prepublication classification review of client's manuscript:“Hunting Nukes, A Fifty-Year Pursuit of Atom Bomb Builders and Mischief Makers”.
Best of luck to @glynco et al. that the SC takes up this important case on #PrePub. Way too much can be hidden w/abuse of process #TruthMatters #Transparency #FreeSpeech matters
On behalf of my and four other government employees, @knightcolumbia and @ACLU Have Petitioned the Supreme Court To Review Constitutionality of Intelligence Agencies’ “Prepublication Review” Regimes of #PrePub #Censorship #TruthMatters #FreeSpeech matters #FirstAmendment matters
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Biden administration submitted the 6th U.S. periodic report to the UN Committee Against Torture which covers the time period from 2014 through early 2021. The report was submitted just before the election of new experts to the Committee. THREAD 1/ aclu.org/report/united-state…
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Join us!
We're co-organizing event to discuss @CrisisGroup report, "Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the US War on Terror"
Speakers:
@bridgewriter
LtCol John Cherry (USMC, Ret)
@LorenRaeDeJ
@BCFinucane
@mwhanna1
Weds, Oct 20, 11am ET
Register👇
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Our full statement at the #UNGA76 First Committee general debate on disarmament and int'l security is now available online:
➡️ icrc.org/en/document/stateme…
Read on for a 360-degree overview of key topics, including #TPNW, #NPT, #AWS, #cyber, #CCW, #OuterSpace ...and of course #IHL
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Two journalists whose work has angered the authorities in Russia and the Philippines were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, honoring the right to free speech which the prize-giving committee described as under threat around the globe reut.rs/3llrYqJ
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OH MY GOD, @mariaressa!!! You’ve only gone & won the Nobel Prize!!!!
This is AMAZING! I am so unbelievably proud to be friends with this amazing woman who has stood up for journalists everywhere. 👏👏👏
2021 peace laureates Maria Ressa, @mariaressa, and Dmitry Muratov are receiving the #NobelPeacePrize for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.
#NobelPrize
