Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi lawyer for Saddam Hussein , claimed Friday in an interview with the Associated Press that his client had been "severely tortured" by Americans during his detention, bolstering Saddam's own claims dramatically made in court Wednesday. He said that three medical teams had found evidence of abuse and that he himself had [...]
A court in London ruled Friday that the former Vice-President of crippled Russian oil-giant Yukos , Aleksander Temerko, currently living in Britain, cannot be extradited to Russia, saying that he would likely not receive a fair trial there. Temerko became Vice-President of Yukos in 2003 after former owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to eight years [...]
A federal judge has granted a temporary injunction against a new California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors sought by the Video Software Dealers Association and the Entertainment Software Association . In a ruling issued Wednesday, US District Court Judge Ronald Whyte stated the industry groups were likely to [...]
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Derbez plans to travel to Washington on December 29 to meet with US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick to discuss a proposed 800-mile wall to be built along the US-Mexico border . The US House of Representatives passed a controversial border security bill earlier this month providing, among other things, [...]
Adel Yahya, a 23-year old student, appeared in a London court Friday after being charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000 with conspiracy to cause explosions in connection with his alleged role in planning a failed series of attacks on the London transit system on July 21, 2005, two weeks after the devastating July 7 [...]
A Dutch court Friday sentenced a Dutch businessman to the maximum term of 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals used to produce mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's government. Frans van Anraat , who went on trial in The Hague a month ago, was himself acquitted of genocide charges , [...]
AP is reporting that new US Department of Justice documents released Friday by the National Archives include a 1985 statement by US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito that the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling should be overturned. Review the full text of the newly-released documents. 10:29 AM ET – The June 3, 1985 Alito [...]
Uganda announced Thursday it would commence reparation negotiations with the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2006, following Monday's International Court of Justice ruling that Uganda violated Congo's sovereignty during a 1998-2003 war and was responsible for human rights abuses and the plundering of Congolese natural resources. A top civil servant in the Ugandan foreign [...]
Former US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle denied in an editorial in the Washington Post Friday that the post-9/11 congressional Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) provided any basis for warrantless National Security Agency wiretapping within the United States . He wrote:As Senate majority leader at the time, I helped negotiate that law with the [...]
The office of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) tasked with investigating the oil-for-food program will remain open an additional three months, until March 31, so prosecutors can assist "duly authorized law enforcement and regulatory agencies in cases they may be pursuing against companies, individuals and entities," the UN announced Thursday. The IIC, led by [...]
