On 19th June, the Director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, told the US Senate Judiciary Committee that his agency had used drones for surveillance purposes. In his testimony, which was primarily concerned with telephone...
The number of children killed in drone strikes, as highlighted by the work of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, has been the subject of on-going concern. For example, currently it is believed that in...
On May 9th the Peshawar High Court ruled that drone strikes in Pakistan, undertaken by the United States, were illegal and should be considered a war crime. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice...
In late May, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns, issued his report to the Human Rights Council on lethal autonomous robots. He defined these as “weapon systems that,...
