Serbia's war crimes court found four members of the Scorpions paramilitary group guilty of murder Tuesday for their role in the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica . The charges were based on video footage shot by the four men as six Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica were shot dead. Scorpions commander Slobodan [...]
A federal judge Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss the terrorism charges against Jose Padilla based on Padilla's allegations that he was tortured while detained as an "enemy combatant." Padilla has said that that he was abused, threatened, administered either PCP or LSD as a truth serum, and subjected to sleep deprivation and stress positions [...]
Bangladesh's Emergency Powers Rules of 2007, instituted when Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed declared a state of emergency in January, has been amended to require the approval of concerned state officials before suspects face trial, appeal, bail, or even investigation, according to an announcement from the Bangladeshi Ministry of Home Affairs Monday. The amendment also permits [...]
Chinese officials Tuesday criticized US plans to file a case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for lax enforcement of copyright violations and trademarks. Wang Xinpei, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce , released a statement Tuesday expressing the country's "strong dissatisfaction" to the US decision and warned that the case [...]
A lawyer for the Venezuelan government said Monday that the US is preventing Luis Posada Carriles from being brought to trial for allegations that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner . Carriles is currently in the US awaiting an immigration trial after being arrested for illegally entering Texas across the Mexican border [...]
A Chinese lawyer and outspoken critic of the Chinese government has accused authorities of torturing him to confess to subversion charges, according to letters and recordings that were recently made public by a fellow activist. Gao Zhisheng alleges that he was handcuffed or made to sit in a cross-legged position for hundreds of hours with [...]
The city government of Washington, DC on Monday asked the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals for an en banc rehearing of a case that led to a controversial ruling last month invalidating the city's handgun ban . City lawyers warn that the current ruling "severely limits" the ability of local and federal legislatures to [...]
Judge Amy St. Eve of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion Monday for a mistrial in the prosecution of Canadian-born former media mogul Conrad Black on fraud charges. John Boultbee, a former associate of Black and his current co-defendant, requested a separate trial from Black in addition to [...]
An Ethiopian court on Monday dropped genocide and treason charges against more than 100 people charged involved in 2005 political protests, and released from prison 25 detainees, including several journalists, after acquitting them on all charges. Finding that the prosecution had failed to prove charges against them, Judge Adil Ahmed ruled against the government and [...]
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said Monday that the United States is filing a case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for lax enforcement of copyright violations and trademarks. Schwab said that the US will also file a second challenge to China's existing trade barriers, which has hurt the sale of US-produced movies, [...]
