The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Wednesday issued a temporary stay of a district court order requiring the federal government to release 17 Uighur detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay . A three-judge panel wrote: The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient [...]
German authorities Wednesday transferred custody of Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Rwandan minister suspected of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide , from a facility in Frankfurt to a UN Detention Facility in Arusha, Tanzania. In Tanzania, Ngirabatware awaits an appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) , where he is facing charges of [...]
US military officers feared for the mental health of alleged terrorism detainees held in isolation in the US, according to documents received through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The materials released Wednesday are a collection of heavily redacted e-mail communications between unidentified US [...]
US State Department legal advisor John B. Bellinger III ,told the Guardian newspaper Tuesday that British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are not detaining suspected insurgents in those countries due to concerns that the soldiers will be liable for their treatment of the detainees under UK and European human rights law. Bellinger's comments stem from [...]
The UN General Assembly voted Wednesday to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of the unilaterally-proclaimed independence of Kosovo . Seventy-seven member states voted for a resolution that was introduced by Serbia last month, while six voted against and 74 abstained. The states voting against were [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday affirmed the 2007 conviction of Milan Martic on 16 counts of crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war, including persecutions, murder, torture, deportation, attacks on civilians, and wanton destruction of civilian areas. The Appeals Chamber reversed Martic's [...]
Citigroup Inc., Wachovia Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. announced Wednesday that they had extended an agreement to freeze litigation activity through 8 AM Friday. According to Citigroup, the agreement provides for 1. A standstill of all formal litigation activity effective immediately;2. Ceas any formal discovery activities, and3. Cooperat in good faith to agree among [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in three cases, including Winter, et al. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al. , 07-1239, in which the Court will review a Ninth Circuit ruling rejecting the Bush administration's attempt to exempt the US Navy from environmental laws so that the Navy could continue using [...]
Attorneys for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Tuesday seeking to delay the transfer of 17 Uighur detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , hours after a district judge ordered their release . In the motion, Assistant [...]
The United Nations will not open an investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters Tuesday. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari , who is Bhutto's widower, has repeatedly called for the UN to conduct an inquiry similar to the ongoing investigation into the 2005 assassination [...]
