Indian police Saturday arrested two men allegedly belonging to the Bangladesh-based Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami militant group who they say were "part of a close network that provided local support to the terrorists" responsible for bomb blasts at courthouses in Lucknow, Varanasi, and Faizabad late last month that killed 16 lawyers. The cities are all in [...]
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that employers can ban union-related e-mails as part of a general policy against solicitations from outside organizations while still allowing employees to relay personal messages. In a decision made December 16 but only released Friday, the Republican-dominated Board held 3-2 that the Eugene, Oregon Register-Guard newspaper could properly [...]
A CIA spokesman insisted Saturday that the agency cooperated with the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission) in its requests for information and materials concerning the interrogation of detainees, disputing claims that it had not been forthcoming by not disclosing the existence of interrogation tapes that [...]
The Guard Publishing Company d/b/a The Register-Guard and Eugene Newspaper Guild, CWA Lo-cal 37194., National Labor Relations Board, December 16, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US President George W. Bush Friday signed into law a bill that will allow the federal government to prosecute individuals in the US suspected of genocide abroad. The Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 modifies Section 1091, Title 18 USC , which had limited genocide prosecution to US nationals or to offenses by non-nationals committed inside [...]
The US Department of Defense said Friday that newly charged Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi is the brother-in-law of Khalid al Mihdhar , one of the 9/11 hijackers. Mihdhar was on American Airlines Flight 77 , the plane that hit the Pentagon. MCT has more. Military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay [...]
Genocide Accountability Act of 2007, signed by President George W. Bush, December 21, 2007 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A panel of former 9/11 Commission members say the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) withheld videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects, possibly violating federal law. According to a Saturday New York Times report, the panel began to review documents concerning the matter after it was disclosed earlier this month that the agency destroyed the videotapes [...]
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , apologized Friday for his role in two massacres which occurred during his administration in the early 1990s. Fujimori's apology came during his trial on murder and kidnapping charges stemming from the military killings of 25 people in 1991 and 1992. The victims included a professor and nine students killed [...]
The Supreme Court of Nepal Friday ordered the Nepalese government to extend gay and transgendered people the same rights and privileges as other citizens. Gay and transgendered people face heavy discrimination in conservative Nepal , where so-called "unnatural sex" is illegal and is punishable by jail time. The ruling by Supreme Court judges Pawan Kumar [...]
