The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) met on Monday to define key terms related to the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . In particular, the STL is seeking to define the term “terrorism” in order to determine which laws to apply in the case against persons accused of involvement in the [...]
The Iranian government has executed two men convicted of killing three anti-government protesters in prison in 2009, according to a report Sunday by pro-government website Khabarnameh Daneshjooyan. The execution of the two prison officials was reported by Abdolhossein Rouhalamini, the father of one of the deceased protesters. The men were charged with torturing and eventually [...]
The Egyptian government will meet with opposition leaders Sunday to study potential changes to its constitution , but opposition leaders are hesitant to believe anything will come of the effort . A committee of judicial and political leaders from the government and from opposition parties will suggest constitutional amendments. The Muslim Brotherhood , the oldest [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the health care reform law . Judge Keith Starrett ruled that plaintiffs, Mississippi Lt. Governor Phil Bryant and 10 other Mississippi residents who filed the complaint , failed to show they have legal standing pursuant to [...]
The US and Russia on Saturday formally inaugurated the New START treaty , an agreement intended to reduce nuclear arms in both countries. At the security conference in Munich, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov exchanged documents that finalized two years of negotiations aimed at improving relations between the [...]
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the detention of Mashur Al Sabri , a Saudi-born Yemeni citizen who was captured between Afghanistan and Pakistan and detained as an enemy combatant in December 2002. Sabri is currently 32 years old and has been held for more than eight years in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The [...]
The Cuban Roman Catholic Church announced Friday that Cuban officials have agreed to release two more political prisoners. The agreement includes allowing Angel Moya to stay in Cuba and Guido Sigler to go to the US. Moya is only the second prisoner authorities have allowed to remain in Cuba. So far, most have been released [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday voted 2-1 to uphold the conviction of a Florida doctor who offered to treat injured al Qaeda fighters so they could return to fighting Americans in Iraq. Petitioner Dr. Rafik Sabir argued that 18 USC § 2339B , the statute [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday revived a lawsuit against Drummond Company alleging that the company hired Colombian paramilitaries to assassinate plaintiffs’ fathers. The plaintiffs brought suit against Drummond under the Alien Torts Statute (ATS) , the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA) , which allows US citizens to [...]
A Danish court on Friday sentenced Somali Islamist Muhideen Mohammed Geelle to nine years in prison for his 2010 attack on Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber. Geele was convicted on Thursday on charges of attempted murder and terrorism for breaking into Westergaard’s home and [...]
