Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday threatened to bring a lawsuit against a committee investigating Thaksin's alleged corruption if it releases details of a report into a controversial land purchase . Thaksin's lawyers believe that the release of the information would prejudice any case against Thaksin. Subcommittee chairman Udom Fuangfung had planned [...]
Chung Mong-koo , chairman of Hyundai Motors Group , pressed an appeal of his February 5 conviction for embezzlement and bribery Tuesday by submitting a written "pledge" to the Seoul High Court, hoping to obtain leniency by honoring an earlier promise to donate shares valued at one trillion won ($1.07 billion USD) to charity over [...]
Members of the committee responsible for developing reforms to Iraq's constitution said Tuesday that, after six months of negotiations, they have been unable to reach any sort of agreement. The panel made up of Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds had promised to present Iraq's parliament by May 15 a set of proposed amendments aimed at being [...]
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 [...]
