Two US soldiers will face court-martial proceedings for striking two detainees in their custody at Forward Operating Base Ripley in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the US military said Thursday. Army Sgt. Kevin D. Myricks and Army Spc. James...
An Iranian appeals court has upheld the acquittal of the intelligence agent who was accused of murdering Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi , lawyers said Wednesday. Kazemi died in 2003, while being detained for photographing...
Iraqi human rights officials are investigating reports that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah. According to Acting Human Rights...
Judge Patrick Robinson, who is presiding over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , adjourned the proceedings Wednesday after Milosevic said he was too ill to call his...
Peru's Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a prosecutor's request to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from Chile so that he can face corruption and human rights charges in Peru. Supreme Court Justice Jose Luis Lecaros denied...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered Wednesday that British citizen Babar Ahmad be extradited to the United States where he will face charges of terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a website...
Former Bosnian Army commander Sefer Halilovic was acquitted Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on war crimes charges . The ICTY ruled that court prosecutors did not prove that Halilovic,...
Several members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee predicted in a hearing Wednesday that a bill to allow the televising of US Supreme Court proceedings will soon be passed by Congress. The bill...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommitee on the Constitution approved a proposed constitutional amendment, the Marriage Protection Amendment , in a 5-4 vote Wednesday. The amendment, which defines marriage as a union between a man and...
US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has proposed legislation that would block suspected foreign terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay from using US courts to challenge their detentions. The amendment to the 2006 defense appropriations bill...
