Human Rights First Monday filed an amicus curiae brief requesting a stay of military commission proceedings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ,...
A Sudanese man charged with aiding an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of a Darfur war crimes suspect appeared in court Monday. Mohamed Alsary Ibrahim is charged with working to overthrow the...
Five men were found guilty Monday in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey of plotting to kill US soldiers at Fort Dix . The five men, Serdar...
An Iraqi national living in Maryland on Sunday pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein . Saubhe Jassim Al-Dellemy, a former Baath party member, pleaded...
German government spokesperson Thomas Steg said Monday that Germany would consider taking in detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison if US President-elect Barack Obama closed the facility. Steg said that Germany supports closure of...
An Iraqi court on Sunday began a new trial for Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," and three other Saddam Hussein-era officials accused in a 1998 gas attack...
An Argentine court on Friday suspended its decision to release up to 20 suspects who are accused of committing human rights violations during the country's military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, known as the "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST...
Four white Zimbabwean farmers were charged Thursday with trespassing on state property for failing to vacate farms that were seized by the government. The charges are in defiance of a November ruling by the South African Development Community Tribunal...
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said Friday that 23 employees of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior who were arrested this week for alleged attempts to rebuild Saddam Hussein's Baath party [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to reject the recently passed Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment of 2008 (UAPA) , which would allow the government to hold...
