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Fax cover sheet from Jean-Philippe Lavoyer to State Department legal Advisor Taftr forwarding a communique from Francios Bugnlon, Director for international Law and Cooperation within the Movement (attachment not included).
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jean-Philippe Lavoyer
William Howard Taft, IV
William Howard Taft, IV
Geneva Convention Article V: Convention (V) Information Bureaux and Relief Societies for Prisoners of War
Several letters faxed to U.S. Amb. William Farish from Christian Fisher, Solicitors (UK) re: Status of British National Detainee at Guantanamo. The attorneys for the family of the detainee request information such as: what is the legal authority ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Christian Fisher
William Farish
William Stamps Farish, IV
Fax Cover Sheet from the Australian Embassy Washington to Ambassador Prosper re: Australian Detainee David Hicks and an Australian press item of 18 December, 2001
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Susan Dietz
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
David Hicks
Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia) News Article re: CIA Grills Aussie Traitor Aboard Ship - David Hicks
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
David Hicks
This letter is from Ann Clwyd, Member of the British Parliament on behalf of an All-Party Parliamentary Human Group expressing concern over treatment of detainees held at Guantanamo. She voices concern over the "legal limbo" the detainees are in ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Ann Clwyd
Glyn Davies
JoAnn J. Dolan
This is a fax cover sheet from the Embassy of Australia discussing a press release on military commissions. [The press release is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Andrew Shearer
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Andrew Shearer, L.R. Lohman, Harry R. Melone, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Address from Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the Biennial Conference of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Berlin, Germany on August 27, 2004. The address discusses, generally, global terrorist attacks with ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Louise Arbour
Frank E. Schmelzer , Sandra Day O'Connor
Yaser Esam Hamdi, Shafiq Rasul
Questions for Powell sent from Ben Barber, State Department Bureau Chief, The Washington Times to Cynthia Church, Public Affairs Office, Department re: POW status and effects on US troops, for American Legion Magazine.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Ben Barbara
Cynthia Church
Cynthia Church
Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs re: Swedish Citizen at Guantanamo Base Released