The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Tuesday ruled that labor unions can try to prevent employers from hiring cheaper labor from other EU countries, but limited workers' right to strike. The court found that workers were entitled to strike to protect existing jobs or to preserve existing employment conditions, but that they could not prevent [...]
Prosecution and defense lawyers said Tuesday that they will be ready to present evidence when the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumes in January at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Taylor's trial began in June, but proceedings were postponed to allow Taylor's new defense team more time to prepare. [...]
A former Guantanamo detainee who alleges he was tortured when the CIA handed him over to Moroccan interrogators has asked the UK government to ensure that photographic evidence of his torture is preserved, according to Tuesday reports. Ethiopian Binyam Mohamed says that in 2002 US forces "outsourced" his interrogation to Moroccan agents, who tortured him; [...]
The superior courts of Pakistan are facing a massive shortage of judges in the wake of automatic dismissals following President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule, according to Pakistani officials in the country's Law Ministry quoted by Pakistan's News daily Tuesday. While the country's Supreme Court has been staffed with 14 judges so [...]
Benjamin Ward : "The Home Office announced on December 6 that it will ask Parliament to grant it special powers to extend the 28-day pre-charge detention period in terrorism cases. The proposal would give the Home Secretary the power to authorize the detention of terrorism suspects for up to 42 days, upon the recommendation of [...]
About one dozen officers on trial in the Philippines in connection with a failed 2003 mutiny apologized to the court Tuesday for an aborted coup attempt against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last month. In a letter provided by their lawyers, the defendants said they walked out of court in the heat of the moment, [...]
A retired US CIA agent told ABC News Monday that CIA interrogators have successfully used waterboarding to get crucial information about planned terror attacks, though the agent did say he considered the technique to be torture. Retired agent John Kiriakou, in an ABC News interview , confirmed the use of waterboarding during the interrogation of [...]
Thailand will pardon as many as 25,000 prisoners in honor of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th birthday, Thai Department of Corrections Director Wanchai Roujanavong told AFP Tuesday. Approximately 25,000 inmates are eligible for pardons and a number of other prisoners will have their sentences reduced, though Wanchai said that a final number has not been set. [...]
Lawyers from the CIA's clandestine operations branch, formerly known as the Directorate of Operations, provided written approval for the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects, the New York Times reported Tuesday. According to the Times' source, a former CIA official speaking on the condition of anonymity, discussions about destroying the videotapes [...]
Portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and its 2004 amendment, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which make it a crime to help groups considered to be terrorist organizations by the US government are too vague, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday. Judge Harry [...]
