Danish prosecutors on Monday brought an additional charge of terrorism against the Somali man already charged with the attempted murders of Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber, and a police officer. The man, who remains unnamed, is said to have broken into Westergaard's home with an [...]
The Rwandan government released a report Monday concluding that the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana was the work of Hutu extremists. An independent committee of experts found that Hutu extremists, including members of the president's own family, were opposed to the 1993 Arusha Accords , a power-sharing agreement supported by Habyarimana, designed to end [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in McDaniel v. Brown that a federal district court may not consider non-record evidence when conducting a sufficiency review of evidence during federal habeas corpus proceedings. In a per curiam opinion, the Court found that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred when it allowed [...]
Iran's Prosecutor-General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei on Monday called for sedition trials against leaders of protests following last June's contested presidential election . In a statement to Tehran prosecutors , Ejei said that he supported calls by religious and civil authorities to try those who led anti-government protests for "mohareb,"or warring against God, which is [...]
Police in the southern Italian town of Rosarno began evacuating hundreds of African immigrants Saturday, following three days of violence that began Thursday when a group of immigrants was attacked while returning from the farms where they worked. The attack sparked rioting among the immigrant population and resulted in property damage as well as injuries [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced the construction of 70 miles of fence along Israel's border with Egypt in order to combat terrorism and illegal immigration. In explaining the purpose for the barrier, which has an estimated cost of more than $400 million USD, Netanyahu explained: I decided to close Israel's southern border [...]
The details surrounding the deaths of several individuals inside US immigration detention centers were intentionally concealed, the New York Times (NYT) reported Saturday. The NYT, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , gathered information through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) pertaining to more than 100 deaths that have occurred in the detention [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Library of Congress on behalf Col. Morris Davis , the former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay military commissions . Davis, who was employed at Library's Congressional Research Service (CRS) , resigned as the military commissions' chief prosecutor in October 2007. Following [...]
Afghan officials on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to delineate the process through which Afghanistan will take over the US military's Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base . The transfer of responsibilities may take place within six months , and will initially rely on the Afghan Ministry of Defense [...]
A naturalized American citizen pleaded not guilty on Saturday in federal court in New York City to charges of conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country and of receiving military training from al Qaeda. Adis Mendunjanin was indicted in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Saturday morning, and [...]
