Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo Bay detainee Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah in a partially redacted opinion made public Monday. Kollar-Kelly denied Al Odah's habeas petition last week, finding that the government had shown that it was more likely [...]
Several US tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard , filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a new tobacco regulation law on First Amendment grounds. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky , challenges portions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act , which contains several [...]
The death of an Iranian prisoner in police custody was determined to have been caused by beatings and poor prison conditions in the wake of the post-election turmoil , according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency Monday. Mohsen Rouhalamini, son of the adviser to defeated presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai was said by police authorities to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule preventing cable companies from controlling more than 30 percent of the US market. In a challenge brought by Comcast , the nation's largest cable company, the court found the rule to be arbitrary and [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the initiation of removal proceedings against a Michigan man accused of killing Jews while serving as a member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in L’viv, Ukraine, during World War II. John Kalymon is accused of personally shooting Jews while serving in the UAP between [...]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Monday that William Smith of Australia has been appointed acting international co-prosecutor to replace Canadian Robert Petit when his resignation takes effect September 1. Smith has served for three years as deputy co-prosecutor and was previously a trial lawyer, legal officer, and analyst at the [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights commemorated the International Day of the Disappeared Monday, calling on states to eliminate enforced disappearances and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance . Jemery Sarkin, chairperson of the UN working group on enforced disappearances, said the signing the [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday began genocide proceedings against a former businessman man charged with ordering a bulldozer to knock down a church housing refugees and then ordering the bulldozer driver to crush those refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Prosecutors say that Gaspard Kanyarukiga helped plan the 1994 massacre [...]
North Korea called on the newly-elected Japanese government Monday to apologize for its use of Asian "comfort women" by the Japanese Army in World War II. In an editorial published in the communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmum, North Korea called on Japan to repudiate its past and urged it to emulate Germany, which apologized for [...]
The US has released more than 5,000 Iraqi prisoners and transferred more than 1,000 more to Iraqi control in 2009, according to a Sunday statement by the US-led Multinational Force in Iraq . This year's releases and transfers, conducted in accordance with the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) , brings the number of prisoners detained [...]
