A bill that would set up a nationwide online database of sex offenders' homes and workplaces is awaiting President Bush's approval following passage Tuesday by the US House. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 , named after a Florida boy who was abducted from a shopping mall and killed in 1981, [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Tuesday it has appealed the dismissal of a highly publicized lawsuit brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials and employees on behalf of Khalid el-Masri , a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency seized him in [...]
Democrats in the US Senate are proposing additional exemptions for a bill that would punish those who help a minor cross state lines to receive an abortion without parental consent or notification. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to offer an amendment to the Child Custody Protection Act that would shield "confidants" such as clergy and [...]
The UK Home Office announced plans to overhaul Britain's immigration system Tuesday in a review outlining how the Home Office's Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) will respond to the impact of globalization, changing travel patterns and evolving international crime and terrorism. The review recommends implementing identification cards, including biometric visas for foreign nationals by 2008; [...]
The youngest suspect arrested in June in connection with an alleged terrorist plot to attack Canadian targets has been released on bail. The 16-year-old, whose name has not been publicized because he is a minor, was released Monday after a judge spent nearly two weeks deliberating, according to the suspect's lawyer, Michael Block. Details of [...]
Three men convicted in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will likely be executed in late August, a spokesman from the Bali district attorney's office said Tuesday. Under Indonesian law, head of Denpasar's district attorney office Made Suratmaja cannot disclose the location or date when the three men will be executed by firing squad, but said [...]
The joint UN-Cambodian court that will try former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that decimated Cambodia's population in the "killing fields" of the late 1970s must move quickly or risk the deaths of more of the aging genocide suspects, the US ambassador to Cambodia said Tuesday. Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli , speaking to more [...]
Nepal’s reinstated parliament on Tuesday directed the government to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the new international tribunal established to try crimes against humanity. “Nepali people want an end to impunity," a parliamentary declaration said. "They also want to see human rights perpetrators punished. So this parliament orders the Government of [...]
A terror watch list designed to keep suspected terrorist from entering the United States through one of 324 points of entry is vague and ineffective, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General Richard Skinner said Monday. Skinner released an unclassified version of a report on actions taken to intercept suspected terrorists at US ports of [...]
Momcilo Mandic, the former Bosnian Serb justice minister in the wartime government under Radovan Karadzic , pleaded not guilty at the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday to charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, embezzlement and fraud. Mandic was charged in connection with his efforts to offer Karadzic [...]
