US Marine Sgt. Jermaine A. Nelson should face court-martial for the November 2004 murder of an Iraqi detainee in Fallujah , a US Marine hearing officer found following an Article 32 pretrial hearing . Nelson was...
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US Marine charged in Fallujah murder should face court-martial: hearing officer
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ICTY transfers Bosnian Croat leader to serve war crimes sentence in Italy
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ECHR rules Russia violated rights of 13 detained Andijan uprising suspects
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Argentina police arrest former police chief ‘Dirty War’ suspect
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US Senate passes legislation to bar discrimination based on genetic testing
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Military defense lawyer for alleged 9/11 mastermind worried about trial fairness
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Austria, Denmark parliaments approve EU reform treaty; Czech vote delayed
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Myanmar to allow voters to observe ballot count in constitutional referendum
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Louisiana school Bible distribution ruling [US DC]
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UK terror suspects asset freeze ruling [UK HC]
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Friday that it has transferred a former Bosnian Croat leader who was convicted of war crimes related to the torture and persecutions...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Russia violated the civil rights of 13 men accused of terrorism in Uzbekistan by detaining them without trial for 20 months. In 2006, Russia...
Argentinean politician and former police chief and mayor Luis Abelardo Patti, wanted by Argentina for allegedly torturing and killing several people during Argentina's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" , was arrested in Buenos Aires...
The US Senate on Thursday voted 95-0 in favor of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) , legislation aimed at preventing employers and health insurers from discriminating against people who have a genetic...
Navy Captain Prescott Prince , the military-appointed lawyer for confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , has expressed concern over the fairness of his client's upcoming military commission trial....
The upper house of the Austrian parliament Thursday voted 151-27 to approve the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon . The...
Myanmar voters will be permitted to observe ballot counting in a scheduled May national referendum on a draft constitution put forth by the country's ruling junta, according to Thursday state media reports. Government officials...
John Roe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, April 22, 2008 [ruling that a school district must stop the distribution of Bibles in schools as it constitutes a religious activity...
A, K, M, Q & G and H.M. Treasury, UK High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Administrative Court, April 24, 2008 ....
