Amnesty International welcomed Saturday the recently-announced public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British military custody in 2003....
A French court released a bank account belonging to Russian news agency RIA Novosti Friday. The account was frozen in January , along with other accounts belonging to several Russian state organizations. The court ruled that...
European Commission ministers Friday agreed on implementation of a new counter-terrorism package, including a proposal to amend the Framework Decision on combating terrorism to criminalize recruitment and training for terrorism, particularly when committed...
US Army Col. Lawrence Morris, chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay military commissions, has said that the trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Sept. 11 suspects will be broadcast live via closed-circuit television...
Former Supreme Court of Pakistan justice Rana Bhagwandas Thursday told the Lahore High Court Bar Association that the Supreme Court as currently constituted is unconstitutional, and that its ruling supporting Pakistani President...
Several US states announced Wednesday that they would resume executions by lethal injection after the Supreme Court's decision upholding Kentucky's lethal injection protocol earlier in the day. Virginia lifted its death penalty moratorium and Oklahoma's...
The Federal Court of Australia Wednesday ruled against former Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib in an ongoing claim for compensation against the Australian government, which he accused of being complicit in torture he...
Police in Zimbabwe Friday banned all political demonstrations as tension continued to mount after the country's contested March 29th presidential election . Independent observers say that Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won more...
Pakistani lawmakers introduced a bill Friday that would lift media restrictions imposed by President Pervez Musharraf after his declaration of emergency rule last November. The bill seeks to remove prohibitions on live broadcasts as...
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey Thursday disavowed a 2001 memo advising the Bush administration that Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures did not apply to "domestic military operations." Appearing before the Senate...
