US Army Col. Richard Basset traveled to the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday to begin an investigation into accusations of abuse . The US Defense Department last week ordered US...
Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews has defended a new crime bill introduced by the country's Conservative Party government which could require repeat criminal offenders to convince courts that they are no longer dangerous instead of...
Defense lawyers acting for Saddam Hussein in his genocide trial again failed to appear in court Wednesday, despite an agreement with the chief judge allowing them to rejoin the proceedings. The lawyers...
US Army Col. Thomas Pappas testified Tuesday that the senior officer running the interrogation center at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was concerned when he was chosen that he did not have the proper training...
A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen who is also a legal resident of Germany, said Tuesday that Germany is investigating allegations of abuse by German soldiers. Kurnaz, who...
The trial of six suspected Islamic militants accused of planning an attack against Dutch politicians began Monday in the Netherlands. The defendants include twenty-year-old Samir Azzouz , whose previous acquittal sparked intense criticism of Dutch anti-terrorism laws. Azzouz...
Two terror suspects whose movement had been restricted under control orders in the UK were reported as missing Monday. One of the individuals is an Iraqi who appears to have been missing for several months,...
The number of hate crimes committed in the US in 2005 fell 6 percent when compared to 2004 numbers, but the percentage of race-based incidents increased slightly, according to figures in a new report from the...
Portions of an article on torture in Chechnya written by murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya before her death were published Thursday by the Novaya Gazeta . The report detailed allegations of torture, including...
US District Judge Karen Caldwell has ruled that a Kentucky ban preventing judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign funds is a violation of the First Amendment. The state argued that the ban was in place...
