The US and UK governments have been discussing the release of nine British residents currently being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay , but the British government has so far refused to accept the men, saying that US demands for continued surveillance of the prisoners after their hand-over are unnecessary and unworkable, [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that European companies may pay their male employees more in wages based on years of service even though women in the same positions may have less seniority due to childcare issues. The case was brought in 2001 against Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive by a British [...]
Lawyers representing 25 detainees in US custody at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan filed a habeas corpus petition Monday calling for their release and permission to meet with attorneys, two requests not afforded to terrorist suspects under controversial detainee legislation approved by the US Congress last week. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the petition on [...]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told opposition leaders in the lower house of Parliament Tuesday that while he intends to change the role of the country's military in the Japanese constitution , he does not want to make such revisions in order to go to war abroad. Abe assumed the prime ministership last week and [...]
Caroline Fredrickson : "Last week, the House and Senate adopted S.3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006. In doing so, lawmakers removed important checks on the president, failed to protect due process, eliminated habeas corpus for many detainees, undermined enforcement of the Geneva Conventions and gave a "get out of jail free card" to senior [...]
Dr. James Jay Carafano : "When Congress passed the law that will govern how terrorist suspects can be tried in military tribunals, they acted just like the Founding Fathers would have wished. They stuck fast to principles, the bedrock of values and beliefs that this nation stands for — and they compromised on particulars. Three [...]
Eight former Serbian police officers went on trial Monday in Belgrade's special war crimes court charged with the slaying of 48 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. Their commander pleaded not guilty; the remaining defendants will enter their pleas Tuesday. All of the victims, who were killed in Suva Reka , Kosovo, in March 1999, [...]
Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock is reconsidering the removal from Australian libraries of books which the government fears may incite terrorist activity. In a television interview Monday Ruddock expressed a willingness to allow structured and limited research access to two banned books on jihad by the late Palestinian Islamist Abdullah Azam which have been taken [...]
A federal judge Monday denied motions by former Alabama governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to overturn their corruption convictions. US District Judge Mark Fuller ruled there was "substantial evidence" to back jury verdicts against them. In June 2006, Siegelman was convicted on 10 counts, including bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud. Scrushy [...]
The White House announced Monday that the Bush administration will allow US military aid for nearly two dozen countries that have not signed so-called Article 98 agreements which shield US soldiers from prosecution before the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The bilateral agreements provide that neither party to a specific accord will bring the other’s [...]
