Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks wants the US to close the Cuba-based detention center, Hicks' father told a rally in Australia Friday. Hicks fears that the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be held indefinitely without charge and without due process, according to statements made by his father at the rally marking the sixth [...]
Japan's parliament approved new anti-terror legislation Friday that will grant an extension to a Japanese refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , led by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda , used its two-thirds majority in the parliament's lower house to override Friday's earlier rejection of the bill in the upper house, [...]
US Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , whose conviction relating to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal was thrown out earlier this week, told AP Thursday that the investigation into the scandal did not adequately scrutinize those involved. Jordan was the only commissioned officer charged in connection with the scandal; 11 other enlisted soldiers [...]
US District Court Judge Louise Wood Flanagan of the Eastern District of North Carolina Thursday sentenced two former Blackwater USA employees to three years probation for possession of stolen firearms in exchange for their continued cooperation with a Justice Department investigation into whether the private security firm was smuggling weapons into Iraq. In addition to [...]
A US district judge ruled Thursday that the US cannot deport an Egyptian Christian who fled to the United States in 1998 to reportedly escape religious persecution because of the risk that he may face torture in Egypt . US District Judge Thomas Vanaskie of the Middle District of Pennsylvania rejected government arguments that it [...]
Bosnian authorities Thursday confiscated the travel documents of the wife, son, daughter and son-in-law of at-large war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic after High Representative and European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Miroslav Lajcak ordered their seizure Wednesday at the instance of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The Office [...]
Italy Thursday requested the extradition of 139 South Americans accused of kidnapping and murdering 25 Italian dissidents during Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s and 80s. The suspects, including former Argentinian dictator Jorge Videla , former Uruguayan dictator Juan Bordaberry and others involved in military dictatorships in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, were [...]
A court in Bangladesh Thursday sentenced former state minister for communications Salahuddin Ahmed to seven years in prison on corruption charges. Ahbed was arrested in February 2007 and found guilty of accepting a bribe for a business contract. The arrest comes one day after Tarique Rahman , the elder son of former Prime Minister Begum [...]
Prosecutors in the Georgian Republic charged media and financial tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili Thursday with conspiracy to overthrow the Georgian government. Patarkatsishvili allegedly offered a $100 million bribe to a senior police official if he would help him overthrow the government and kidnap the Georgian interior minister. Patarkatsishvili denied the charges and remains in self-imposed exile [...]
The conviction of US Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , the only commissioned officer charged in connection to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal , has been annulled, his lawyer said Thursday. As convening authority in the case, Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe on Tuesday "disapproved" Jordan's August 2007 conviction by a military jury [...]
