The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict urged the US on Wednesday not to imprison Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Radhika Coomaraswamy , through a letter sent to the US military commission at Guantanamo Bay, requested that the US treat Khadr as a child solider. Coomaraswamy stated that Khadr [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday announced that it has ended an inquiry into internal policies and procedures at Google that led to the company inadvertently collecting data on unsecured wireless networks while photographing streetscapes for its Street View maps program. In a letter sent to Google’s counsel, FTC Director of the Bureau [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday refused to overturn a false statements conviction assessed against former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich . Blagojevich argued that his sole conviction of making false statements to the FBI should be thrown out due to claims of trial errors and prosecutorial [...]
The South Korean National Human Rights Commission (NHRCK) has determined that the provision of the military penal code banning same-sex relationships is unconstitutional, according to a report released Wednesday. Under Article 92 of the South Korean Military Criminal Code, same-sex relationships among soldiers are punishable for up to one year in prison and forced retirement. [...]
Polish prosecutors investigating the secret CIA prison in Poland on Wednesday gave Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri victim status, recognizing the validity of his claims that he was mistreated by interrogators. According to ex-CIA officials, al-Nashiri, accused of bombing the USS Cole , was tortured by the agency at the secret prison in Poland. [...]
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen informed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a meeting Wednesday that the government will not allow the prosecution of low-ranking Khmer Rouge officers by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Hun Sen claims that further prosecution of former Khmer Rouge officials would disturb the ongoing peace process [...]
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday struck down a portion of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. The court held that the law, Proposition 200 , was inconsistent with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) , which was passed with [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and its subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc., have agreed to plead guilty to civil and criminal charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of adulterated drugs and will pay a total of $750 million as part of the settlement. The [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US and Iraq to investigate and prosecute those responsible for alleged human rights abuses in Iraq after thousands of previously classified documents detailing torture by US and Iraqi forces were posted on WikiLeaks . Pillay said that the leaked documents suggest US forces killed more [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a permanent injunction Tuesday that will prevent music file-sharing website LimeWire from providing online users with the software necessary to share copyrighted files. The injunction shut down the website, which plaintiff Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claimed has allowed [...]
