A Norwegian court Tuesday acquitted three suspects of terror charges laid for allegedly planning to attack the US and Israeli embassies in Oslo after finding that there was no binding and intentional agreement between them. The three had also been indicted for their roles in a September 2006 shooting at an Oslo synagogue. Charges relating [...]
Former Cambodian head of state Khieu Samphan was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering a stroke. The fifth senior Khmer Rouge leader to be detained by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , he was arrested in November 2007 upon release from the hospital where he was receiving treatment after having suffered an earlier [...]
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) accused the UN Human Rights Council of "undermin the freedom of expression in the name of religious sensibilities" in a resolution the two groups adopted Tuesday. Passed at the 2008 World Newspaper Congress in Goteberg, Sweden, the statement concerns an amendment to a [...]
The Greek Minister of Justice Tuesday quickly condemned as legally "non-existent" the first same-sex marriages performed in the country by the mayor of a small Greek island. Sotiris Hatzigakis said in a statement that Tilos Mayor Anastassios Alferis had overstepped his authority. The ceremonies united two gay and lesbian couples despite preliminary warnings from top [...]
A Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association (SBCA) committee Tuesday said the proposed constitutional amendment package is just an attempt by the Pakistan People's Party to delay addressing the reinstatement of ousted judges. The committee called for the immediate implementation of a Supreme Court decision invalidating Musharraf's November 3, 2007 declaration of emergency law and the [...]
Sahr MuhammedAlly : "Mohammed Jawad, who has been in Guantánamo for five years since he was 16 or 17 years old, was subjected to the "frequent flyer program" in May 2004. According to defense lawyer Air Force Major Dave Frakt, based on a review of DIMS (Detainee Information Management Systems – a daily log kept [...]
Top Sudanese officials have been intimately involved in the planning, execution, and cover-up of atrocities committed against the civilian population of the country's Darfur region, according to a report to be delivered to the UN Security Council Thursday by International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo . The report accuses the Government of Sudan [...]
A Camp Pendleton military judge Tuesday dismissed one count of obstruction of justice against US Marine Corps 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson , an intelligence officer charged in connection with the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha . The obstruction charge was based on allegations that Grayson ordered a subordinate to delete photographic [...]
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday called for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to resign and be tried for treason, labeling Musharraf a traitor disloyal to Pakistan. Now head of the PML-N party in the country's ruling coalition government, Sharif said that Musharraf should be punished for the "damage" that he has done to Pakistan [...]
A proposed UK anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days has been amended to only apply in cases of "grave and exceptional" terrorist threats, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said Tuesday. Current British law authorizes detention without charge for 28 days , but bill proponents [...]
