Moroccan police arrested three leading human rights activists and attempted to arrest three others in the disputed Western Sahara region Sunday amid a crackdown before scheduled talks with pro-independence factions next month. Brahim Dahane, president of the Saharawi Association for Human Rights Victims , said that two members of his organization and another activist from [...]
A Manhattan federal jury Monday convicted Dr. Rafik Abdus Sabir, a US citizen with a medical practice based in Florida, of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda and attempting to provide that support. Sabir was arrested and charged in May 2005 following several meetings with an undercover FBI agent posing as an al [...]
A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Monday that Hicks does not plan to challenge the legality of any control order imposed after his release from prison in Australia. David McLeod said that Hicks is grateful for efforts made to secure his return to Australia and doesn't want to be seen as [...]
The California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District has ruled that the state may continue to transfer prisoners out-of-state while litigation proceeds over the challenged program to deal with California's prison overcrowding . The state has appealed a Sacramento County Superior Court ruling against the program , which began out-of-state transfers in November. Currently, 360 [...]
The UN Committee Against Torture Monday urged Poland to disclose details regarding a parliamentary investigation into the presence of secret CIA prisons in the country on Monday, expressing concern that Poland participated in running terrorist suspect prisons in the country. Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that the government regarded the allegations as a "closed [...]
Police in Zimbabwe are refusing to comply with a High Court ruling requiring police officials to vacate Portwe farm in the Matabeleland North province, which was seized by police in March. High Court Judge Francis Bere ruled last week that the police seizure was illegal and issued an order requiring the police to return control [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will review allegations of rape and other violence committed in the Central African Republic (CAR), ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday. According to Moreno-Ocampo, reports detailing hundreds of rape victims "calling for justice" have been turned over to the Prosecutor's Office, which will now conduct its own investigation. Moreno-Ocampo said [...]
Twenty-one men on trial for assorted crimes under anti-terror laws in Mauritania accused police officials Monday of using torture to extract confessions. All 21 of the suspects are charged with belonging to the "non-authorized organization" Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) , a known wing of the al Qaeda organization, and several of the [...]
President Bush said Monday that he still fully supports US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales despite the growing number of Republicans who have expressed concern over the firings of nine federal prosecutors , telling reporters at a press conference on the Bush Ranch that "He has got my confidence. He has done nothing wrong…I stand by [...]
The British Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with murder in the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko . British prosecutors are seeking Lugovoi's arrest and extradition, and a high-level deputy of British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett summoned Russian Ambassador Yury [...]
