A Spanish court assigned a new judge Thursday to decide whether to prosecute members of the Bush administration behind the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, a court spokesperson told CNN . Eloy Velasco will replace Baltasar Garzon in determining whether to seek legal action against former US attorney general Alberto Gonzales and six [...]
Four former Serbian policemen were convicted Thursday of the killing of 48 Albanian civilians in Suva Reka during the war in Kosovo in 1999. Their trial in a Serbian war crimes court began in October 2005 with eight men accused of rounding up and shooting the civilians, including 46 members of one family, the Berishas. [...]
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday testified in front of a House Appropriations subcommittee that he is willing to release as much information as possible in regards to interrogation techniques used on Guantanamo Bay detainees. Holder said that the recent release of four CIA interrogation memos was not being done selectively to advance a [...]
The lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee Rafik Alhami filed suit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging that Alhami was tortured before the Bush administration approved of the techniques. The suit claims that Alhami was kicked, punched, stripped naked, and threatened with dogs beginning in 2001 and continuing after [...]
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials said Thursday that they would release at least 44 photographs "depicting the treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan," pursuant to a court order. In a letter sent to Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , the DOJ said it [...]
A Canadian Federal Court ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must advocate for the repatriation of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr . Khadr claims that the Canadian government's refusal to request repatriation from the US violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . The Honourable Mr. Justice O'Reilly found that Khadr's rights under section [...]
Kenyan prosecutors brought piracy charges Thursday against 18 Somali nationals who were captured at sea by European naval forces over the past two months and handed over to the Kenyan authorities. The suspected pirates were captured by French and German forces off the Somali coast, where they allegedly attacked several merchant ships in the area. [...]
Former Khmer Rouge prison head Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," testified in court Thursday that he trained staff to elicit confessions from prisoners through torture. Kaing also testified before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as to the chain of command at the notorious S-21 prison camp. On Wednesday, [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday adopted a new standard for authorizing and reviewing the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay proffered by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last month. The DOJ submitted a memorandum in March asking the court to use a new standard for [...]
A London High Court judge said Wednesday that the court will issue an order for the release of classified US intelligence relating to the detention of Binyam Mohamed if the UK government does not request the information within seven days. Lord Justice John Thomas said that UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband should have requested that [...]
