US military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish ruled Tuesday that Pentagon officials lacked the authority to dismiss Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler as defense counsel for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials, JURIST...
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Khadr lawyer reinstated by military judge
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China court sentences two Tibetans to death for role in Lhasa riots
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Sierra Leone war crimes court sentences former guerrilla leaders
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Russia rights commissioner concerned over attacks on activists
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Third Circuit rules Muslim police officer not entitled to wear headscarf on duty
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Peru government, rights groups hail conviction of ex-president Fujimori
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DC Circuit rules courts cannot prevent transfer of Uighur Guantanamo detainees
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Bangladesh exploring trial of 1971 war crimes suspects with UN
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Canada court rules RCMP have right to unionize
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Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
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The Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People's Court in China sentenced two Tibetans to death on Wednesday for their involvement in the March 2008 Lhasa riots . The two men were found guilty of starting...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday sentenced former Revolutionary Union Front (RUF) commanders Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon, and Augustine Gbao to jail terms of 52, 40, and 25 years,...
Human rights activists in Russia are being attacked with greater frequency, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin said Wednesday in an interview with Vesti television . Lukin was responding to the recent...
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that a female Muslim police officer is not entitled to wear a religious headscarf while on duty. Officer Kimberlie Webb of...
The conviction of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday was met with widespread approval from the current Peruvian government and human rights organizations. Peruvian Prime Minister Yehuda Simon [official website, in...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday that US courts cannot prevent the government from transferring detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to foreign countries on the grounds that...
The government of Bangladesh said Tuesday it is working with the UN to organize war crimes prosecutions for alleged violations stemming from the country's 1971 War of Independence against Pakistan [JURIST...
Justice Ian MacDonnell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) , Canada's federal police force and the country's largest law enforcement entity, can...
A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one year. Lawyers for Muntadar...
