Twelve of the 92 videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained evidence of "enhanced interrogation techniques," according to redacted documents filed Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) had acknowledged last week that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) destroyed 92 videotapes of high [...]
US President Barack Obama has distanced himself from remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder in which he characterized the US as a "nation of cowards" on race matters, according to an interview with the New York Times published Saturday. Holder made the statement during a Justice Department (DOJ) event commemorating Black History Month in February, [...]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday continued to criticize foreign aid agencies he has expelled from the country, and threatened to expel remaining agencies, diplomats and peacekeepers in Sudan. Bashir has expelled 13 foreign aid agencies from Sudan after the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week issued a warrant for his arrest. Human rights and other groups have [...]
Bangladeshi officials said Saturday that the government is considering trying by court-martial the more than 1,000 border guards accused of participating in the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny , which killed dozens of top BDR officials, including the force's commander. Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said the government would wait for an investigation report before deciding between [...]
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed claimed in Sunday media reports that documents sent from MI5 to the CIA show that the British intelligence agency was involved with his alleged torture in Morocco . Mohamed claimed the documents reveal that MI5 fed the CIA questions that ended up in the hands of his Moroccan interrogators. [...]
Elizabeth Zitrin : "To the United States, Europe often represents our past. Our social and cultural institutions are a large, diverse melting pot, but were built on a European base. Our legal system and our democratic principles came across the Atlantic. Now, Europe is guiding us to our humanitarian future. Italy's abolitionist movement has pride [...]
Christopher Hill : "Italy's decision on March 3 to completely abolish capital punishment is yet more proof that the world is moving away from this ineffective and unjust system. There has not been an execution by a member of the Council of Europe in over 10 years, and 41 out of the 47 members of [...]
Steven Emerson : "The University of Texas School of Law National Security Clinic, joined by several other advocacy organizations, has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. (KindHearts) in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. KindHearts, an Islamic charity, is the plaintiff in the [...]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir pledged his commitment to the peace process in his country at a Saturday rally, while deriding expelled aid groups and the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this week. At the rally, al-Bashir told the assembled crowd that the country would not stray from the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday rejected an attempt by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to have US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois removed from his federal corruption case. The ruling by Judge James Holderman denied Blagojevich's [...]
