The UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in Silvana Arbia as new registrar in a ceremony at The Hague on Thursday, during which Arbia said that she intends to make protecting witnesses a priority as the ICC prepares for its first trial this year. Arbia was elected by the judges of the ICC in February, [...]
Canada requested in 2002 that the United States not send detainee Omar Khadr to Guantanamo Bay after his capture in Afghanistan, according to a letter submitted with court documents filed by Khadr's lawyers Thursday. Khadr's lawyers have argued that Guantanamo was an inappropriate place to detain Khadr because he was 15 years old at the [...]
The US Department of Justice has opened an internal probe into whether DOJ lawyers acted improperly when advising the US Department of Defense in a 2003 memorandum that military interrogators could employ a wide range of interrogation methods when questioning foreign detainees outside the United States without fear of criminal liability or constitutional sanction, Sen. [...]
An Egyptian military court has yet to release details of the charges on which 25 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood were convicted and sentenced Tuesday, a lawyer for the Brotherhood told Reuters Thursday. In a unusual move, the court had blocked the Brotherhood's lawyers, the media, and defendants' families from the courtroom while the [...]
A Chilean court Thursday sentenced a retired general to 15 years in prison for his role in the 1974 disappearance of a political dissident. General Manuel Contreras , the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet , is already serving a cumulative prison sentence of 57 years for several other convictions. AP has more. [...]
The US House Judiciary Committee Thursday called upon former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to testify concerning any involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman on federal corruption charges in 2005. In a letter to Rove, the committee expressed concern over allegations that the prosecution had been politically motivated, [...]
Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan monks, refugees, and other protesters near the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu Thursday as demonstrations continued against China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . Thursday's detentions follow a sweep of arrests in late March in which hundreds were taken into Nepalese police custody. Since demonstrations began in March, the [...]
A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge Thursday issued a temporary restraining order blocking Philadelphia from enforcing new gun control legislation that would have banned the sale of assault weapons, required owners to report lost or stolen guns within 24 hours, and limited firearms purchases to one per month. The National Rifle Association (NRA) and [...]
Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was released from prison Thursday after a Moscow City Court suspended his sentence. Adamov was convicted on charges of fraud and abuse of office in February and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison by Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court. Adamov said he plans to appeal the verdict and [...]
A lawyer for Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia , sentenced in early April to over three years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power , said Thursday that his client has been denied an appeal. Hu's lawyer said that Hu had 10 days to appeal his conviction, but that Hu's legal [...]
