The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday released new documents describing crimes committed by US soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan which show a pattern of US troops failing to follow the laws of interrogations and deadly actions, but also a pattern of troops believing they were in fact following the law in [...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon denounced US immigration policies during his first state of the union address Sunday, promising to fight for the rights of Mexicans living in the US and protesting the "unilateral measures" taken by the US to make "the persecution and humiliating treatment of undocumented Mexican workers worse." Calderon added that Mexican workers [...]
The Supreme Court of Israel Tuesday ordered the Israeli government to redraw the route of its West Bank security barrier near the Palestinian village of Bilin within a "reasonable period." Bilin residents had challenged the construction of the wall on the grounds that the barrier's planned route of the barrier prevented some Bilin residents from [...]
A Cambodian cabinet minister has said that the Cambodian government could "terminate" the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) if it "illegally" attempts to charge former King Norodom Sihanouk with crimes committed during the Communist Khmer Rouge's control of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975-79, according to Cambodia Daily Monday. Sihanouk was the symbolic head [...]
Death sentences handed down by Chinese courts were at a ten-year low in 2006 and the trend continues in 2007, according to a Chinese Supreme Court justice quoted by state media Monday. In response to wrongful convictions and international criticism, China implemented reforms at the beginning of this year requiring that all death sentences be [...]
A Pakistani lawyers group Sunday announced a campaign to defeat an expected reelection bid by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf . Speaking at a conference of the National Action Committee in Islamabad, Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association president Munir Malik outlined the group's goal to secure Musharraf's resignation and to restore the 1973 Constitution . Protest [...]
The Bangkok Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojamarn on charges of stock trading violations. Thaksin has been living in exile since a bloodless military coup removed him from office last September. He has refused to return to Thailand to face charges because he [...]
Bangladeshi officials on Monday arrested former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her son on corruption and misuse of power charges, one day after another ex-PM was charged with taking bribes . Zia, who was in power until last October, is accused of failing to follow standard procedures in awarding a construction contract to a [...]
Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari , who was released on bail from Iranian custody in August, obtained a passport from Tehran and left Iran Sunday night for an unknown destination, according to her lawyer. Esfandiari, an American citizen, is the director of the Middle East program at the US-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her [...]
The US ambassador to Norway has told Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget that the circulated draft of Norway's new anti-terrorism law is too lenient, Oslo newspaper Aftenposten reported Sunday. Ambassador Benson K. Whitney expressed particular concern about the fact that membership of a terrorist organization was not by itself an offense; as it stands, the [...]
