Germany issued arrest warrants for 13 people allegedly involved with the CIA kidnapping of German citizen Khaled el-Masri , German Prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said Wednesday. Schmidt-Sommerfeld did not name any of the suspects, however, but told AP that "the personal details contained in the arrest warrants are, according to our current knowledge, aliases of CIA [...]
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified on Tuesday in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby concerning conversations Libby had with Miller, during which he allegedly told her about this frustration with the CIA and revealed to her the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Wilson. On cross-examination, defense counsel wanted to ask [...]
Bulgarian prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov said Tuesday that he plans to file charges against eleven Libyan police officers who are accused of torturing five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, who have been convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus while [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reinstated a conspiracy charge against alleged terrorist Jose Padilla Tuesday, reversing a lower court decision that the charge duplicated the other two counts against Padilla and his two co-defendants. The reinstated charge, conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim persons in a foreign country," carries a maximum [...]
Carla Del Ponte said Tuesday that she will step down as chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the end of her current term in September. Del Ponte, who has served for 8 years as chief prosecutor, expressed disappointment about the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic , [...]
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Tuesday that he has requested an assessment of the condition of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks after Hicks' lawyer described Hicks in an interview on ABC Australia as being chained to the floor of an interview room and removed from access to sunlight. Ruddock said that he's received previous [...]
The Tokyo District Court denied financial compensation on Tuesday to 40 displaced Japanese nationals in China who were left there as children after the Japanese defeat in World War II. The plaintiffs sued the government of Japan for 1.32 billion yen in damages for failing to quickly assist in their return and assimilation to Japan. [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Tuesday that torture is systematic and widespread in Jordan, especially when used to elicit confessions from suspected terrorists. Nowak found the practice of torture to be routine at the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) , the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Public Security Directorate, as well as [...]
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) re-introduced a bill Monday which would allow US Supreme Court proceedings to be televised, "unless the Court decides, by a vote of the majority of justices, that allowing such coverage in a particular case would constitute a violation of the due process rights of one or more of the parties [...]
The Bangladesh High Court said Monday that it has banned the government from conducting any elections, including this month's upcoming national election, because of political instability in the country. The Chief Election Commissioner of the Bangladesh Election Commission resigned just last week as further evidence of the current political instability in Bangladesh . Earlier this [...]
