Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the American Red Cross (ARC) alleging that the ARC has been improperly licensing the red cross symbol for commercial purposes. ARC President and CEO Mark W. Everson called the lawsuit "obscene" . Johnson & Johnson, which has used the red cross emblem since 1887 and [...]
The Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal judge Thursday to strike down the Protect America Act 2007 as unconstitutional. The new law, signed by US President George W. Bush Sunday, gives the executive branch expanded surveillance authority for a period of six months while Congress works on long-term legislation to "modernize" the Foreign Intelligence [...]
Canadian intelligence officials suspected that the United States would deport detained Canadian citizen Maher Arar to a country where he could have been subject to torture, according to previously censored information released Thursday by Canada's official Arar Commission . A Canadian judge last month ordered the commission to publish the information in a ruling based [...]
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, said Thursday that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were tortured during their eight years in Libyan custody on suspicion of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus . In an interview with Al Jazeera, Gaddafi acknowledged that the medics had been [...]
Six more detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay , the US Defense Department said Thursday. According to the DOD announcement , five detainees were transferred to Afghanistan and one was transferred to Bahrain . Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa said that Issa al-Murbati's release means that all Bahraini Guantanamo [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Thursday that 14 "high-value" detainees have been designated as enemy combatants based on the recommendations of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) . The detainees, including the alleged masterminds of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the 1998 US embassy bombings in [...]
Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Addendum, Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, August 8, 2007 . Read the full text of the addendum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US Marine Corps Lt. Gen. James Mattis has dismissed all charges against Lance Cpl. Justine I. Sharratt and Capt. Randy W. Stone for their alleged roles in the killing and suspected cover-up of the death of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in November 2005. Mattis dismissed all charges against Sharratt Wednesday, agreeing with the investigating [...]
A North Carolina judge ruled Thursday that the North Carolina Council of State, comprised of Gov. Mike Easley and nine elected state officials, improperly approved new execution protocols in February as a part of their effort to resume executions. Senior Administrative Law Judge Fred Morrison ordered the council to revisit the protocols. Morrison said that [...]
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina entered a plea of not guilty for Bosnian Serb Milrod Trbic Thursday because Trbic failed to appear in court after starting a hunger strike on Monday. Trbic has been charged with genocide for allegedly "knowingly participated in the forcible transfer of the Bosniak population [...]
