Prosecutors for the case against Radovan Karadzic in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Tuesday that they would not drop any charges against the accused in order to expedite the case. The UN-appointed tribunal is under pressure to wrap up proceedings within a year and asked prosecutors earlier this month to [...]
The accused leader of the military arm of Basque separatist group ETA refused to make a statement at two hearings in the Spanish National Courts on Tuesday. Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina faces a total of 21 charges for attacks and attempted attacks that took place between 2000 and 2008, but the proceedings Tuesday were specifically [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking information related to the treatment of prisoners at the US detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Departments of Defense, Justice, and State, and the Central [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed suit Monday on behalf of two groups protesting this week's Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Pittsburgh, alleging that police have violated their Constitutional rights. Seeds of Peace and Three Rivers Climate Convergence (3RCC) claim that police searched and [...]
Google's AdWords, a system that causes advertisements to be shown alongside natural search results on Google , does not violate EU trademark law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said in an advisory opinion Tuesday. AdWords allows advertisers, for a fee, to select keywords that, when searched by a Google user, bring up a link [...]
A man currently imprisoned for smuggling guns into Canada pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism charges linked to the "Toronto 18" plot. Ali Mohamed Dirie's guilty plea comes less than three weeks after the first member of the group to plead guilty was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in connection with a [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran on Monday called for the UN General Assembly to appoint a special envoy to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in Iran since the controversial June presidential election . Both groups urged UN member states to seize the upcoming visit of Iranian [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that states can sue power companies for emitting carbon dioxide, allegedly contributing to global warming . The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by eight states — California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin — as well as New [...]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday proposed "net neutrality" regulations that would prevent Internet providers from restricting access to particular services. At a speech at the Brookings Institution , Genachowski unveiled OpenInternet.gov , stressing the importance of "open Internet" principles. The FCC currently follows four open Internet principles: that consumers must be [...]
A US military judge on Monday granted the government's request for a 60-day continuance in the trial of five Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks . Judge Stephen Henley granted the delay in the case of self-proclaimed architect of the attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , Ramzi bin al-Shibh , and three others, [...]
