Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty in October to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, filed an appeal in London’s Court of Appeal Criminal Division Tuesday. Barot was sentenced to life in prison in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder for his role in the "Gas [...]
The anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanon parliament on Tuesday approved a petition asking UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to create a tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . Members of the parliamentary majority say that Syria was responsible for the assassination and that its allies in the Lebanese government are stalling [...]
President Bush urged Congress on Tuesday to adopt his proposed targets for alternative fuel use as a way of combating greenhouse gas emissions a day after the US Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate automobile emissions. Speaking at a Rose Garden [...]
US District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California approved the release Tuesday of jailed video journalist and blogger Josh Wolf , who was imprisoned for 226 days, longer than any other journalist, for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The judge agreed to Wolf's release after he complied with a subpoena [...]
United States intelligence agents from the FBI and the CIA have been using secret prisons in Ethiopia to conduct interrogations, according to AP Tuesday. The report alleges that men, women, and children from the neighboring African nations of Somalia and Kenya have been secretly transferred to Ethiopia for questioning by US officials, hunting Muslim extremists. [...]
Shane Kadidal : "On April 2, 2007, the US Supreme Court denied cert in our appeal of the D.C. Circuit's decision denying federal court jurisdiction over habeas corpus petitions of Guantánamo detainees. Justices Breyer, Souter, and Ginsburg dissented, with the first two also stating that they would have granted an expedited hearing this May. The [...]
A meeting to sort out remaining differences over the rules governing the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal in Cambodia has been delayed after the Cambodian Bar Association (BAKC) refused to compromise on fees for foreign lawyers. The Bar Association has demanded that foreign defense counsel pay $4,900 to participate in the first year of hearings, despite [...]
A court of appeals in Thailand Tuesday refused to extradite dissident Ly Tong to Vietnam for using a hijacked plane to drop anti-communist leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) in 2000. The court overturned a September ruling that ordered Tong's extradition to face criminal charges of slandering the Vietnamese government and violating its [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tuesday announced the arrests of three former South American military officials suspected of war atrocities in their home countries. Ernesto Guillermo Barreiro is a former Argentine military officer accused of having served as the chief interrogator at La Perla , a clandestine prison during Argentina's 1976-83 Dirty War . [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Tuesday slightly reduced the 32-year sentence of former Bosnian Serb leader Radislav Brdjanin , but upheld the majority of his 2004 convictions for crimes against Croats and Muslims during the Bosnian War . Brdjanin's sentence was reduced by two years because the [...]
