The US Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether a criminal defendant must prove a duress defense by a preponderance of the evidence or, instead, if the government must prove absence of duress beyond a...
AP is reporting that a federal jury in California has found Hamid Hayat guilty of providing material support to terrorists by attending an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan. Hayat was also found guilty...
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said Tuesday that Denmark intended to turn down a request to take custody of former Liberian President Charles Taylor should he be convicted of war crimes...
Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross , said Tuesday that ICRC recommendations to US officials have resulted in considerable improvements in detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay . Kellenberger told Swiss newspaper...
The Intelligence Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2007 , up for a vote in the US House this week, contains several provisions which would expand the authority of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence...
Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, who was in charge of the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, will face charges in connection to the prison abuse scandal, a lawyer...
Zimbabwe State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa on Tuesday repeated his threats that government soldiers and police will use deadly force if necessary to thwart any protests organized by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai . Mutasa was...
US District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the case of Umer Hayat, who is accused of lying to the FBI about his son's alleged terrorism-related activities, after the jury failed to...
Serge Brammertz , the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who is heading the UN's independent investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , on Tuesday met with Syrian...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down opinions in two cases, including Northern Insurance v. Chatham County , 04-1618, where the Court held that an entity that is not entitled...
