LinguaFranca: English legal language explained /podcast
am 06.03.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
Radio National in Australia has a programme called LinguaFranca. A language or linguistics topic is discussed for 15 minutes once a week.
This week, Australian barristers begin to discuss legal terms relating to Guantanamo. This relates to the situation of David Hicks, an Australian detainee in Guantanamo. (By the way:
On one occasion when al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden visited an Afghan camp, Hicks allegedly questioned bin Laden about the lack of English in training material and, after allegedly accepting bin Laden's advice, Hicks “began to translate the training camp materials from Arabic to English”)
In this week's programme, by Julian Burnside, the term is habeas corpus, but there is also some discussion of enemy combatant
An 'enemy combatant' is an individual who, under the laws and customs of war, may be detained for the duration of an armed conflict. When the armed conflict ends, the captured enemy must be returned to his or her own country. …
By adopting the metaphor of the war on terror, the US has labelled David Hicks an enemy combatant even though Hicks is a citizen of Australia (therefore an ally) and at the relevant time was with the Taliban — the lawful government of Afghanistan — and the US has not declared war on Afghanistan. The logic beneath the surface is: the Taliban supported al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda are engaged in terrorism, we have a war on terror, those who support terrorists are our enemy, if they have a …
Düsseldorf Language and Law conference/Konferenz zu Recht und Sprache in Düsseldorf
Transblawg / The Language and Law Conference will be held from May 17 to 19, 2006 in Duesseldorf, Germany. It is an interdisciplinary joint-venture of the University of Duesseldorf and the University of California, Los Angeles. The full programme should be onlin…
Australischer Taliban Hicks muss nur neun Monate absitzen
Strafprozesse und andere Ungereimtheiten / Nach einer Vereinbarung mit dem US-Militärtribunal in Guantanamo muss der Australier David Hicks lediglich für neun Monate ins Gefängnis. Im ersten Prozess gegen einen Häftling des umstrittenen Gefangenenlagers auf Kuba beschlossen die Offiziere…
US-Gericht erlaubt Endlos-Haft für terrorverdächtigen US-Bürger.
mindermeinung.de / Die US-Justiz darf einen unter Terrorverdacht stehenden Amerikaner (sic!) jahrelang ohne Anklage festhalten. Ein entsprechendes Urteil fällte am 09.09.2005 der Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. Those powers include the po…
Guantanamo-Häftling David Hicks aus der Haft entlassen
Strafprozesse und andere Ungereimtheiten / Niemand kann sich so richtig um die Gefolterten kümmern, aber um die Folterer kümmert sich leider auch niemand so,wie sie es verdient hätten.Der bislang einzige wegen Terrorismus-Vorwürfen verurteilte Guantanamo-Häftling David Hicks ist in seine…
Wake up, we are at war! We are all Jews now.
Law & Justice / Dwelling a bit more on the subject of my previous post, I found (via the foreign press overview Iskander of 9/8/2005) an article Wacht auf, wir sind im Krieg! written by the Dutch writer Leon de Winter, published in Cicero, Magazin für politische K…
Al Qaeda Training Manual
Jurabilis / The attached manual was located by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaeda members home. The manual was found in a computer file described as the military series related to the Declaration of Jihad. The manual was…
» Lingua Franca - 3 March 2007 - Julian Burnside on habeas corpus
The detention of David Hicks has introduced argument over the language of the law and of military justice into our daily news bulletins and public discussion.
» David Hicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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