The UN Human Rights Committee said Friday that the US will be late in submitting a report on its anti-terrorist measures, including the treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay . The UN received a letter from US officials informing them that "they are not in a position to submit their report by [...]
The Italian Senate has approved a number of new anti-terrorism security measures drafted in response to the July 7 London bombings in an effort to reduce the risk of a terrorist attack in Italy. The new regulations make it a crime to prepare explosives for a terrorist attack or to train others on using explosives. [...]
A new report prepared at the instance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and released Friday criticizes the Sudanese government for its inaction in allowing sexual violence in the turbulent Darfur region to continue and for the lack of prosecutions against government supported forces accused in the attacks. International charity Medecins Sans [...]
US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will begin facing Senate Judiciary Committee questions September 6, congressional officials said Friday. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Committee, is expected to officially announce the date later in the day but anonymous Republican sources told AP the date had already been finalized. Republicans had considered starting [...]
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been questioned about the repression of a Shiite uprising in 1991 that occured after US and coalition forces pushed the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, Iraqi Special Tribunal investigating judge Raid Juhi said Friday. Saddam was interrogated alone Thursday during the 45-minute hearing and Juhi said he expects to [...]
Rwandan authorities have begun releasing 36,000 inmates, the majority of whom have confessed to taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . The cabinet approved the provisional mass release on Wednesday in a bid to free up the country's overcrowded jails, which are past capacity with more than 80,000 inmates. According to Rwanda's Prosecutor General, [...]
Ugandans voters overwhelmingly endorsed democratic reform in a Thursday referendum on whether to restore multi-party politics after a nearly 20 year absence. The final results were still being calculated Friday, but early returns from 15 percent of polling stations showed more than 90 percent of voters had backed a return to multiple parties. Though a [...]
Army mechanic Sgt. Kevin Benderman was acquitted Thursday of desertion from a unit heading for duty in Iraq, but was convicted of a lesser charge related to intentionally evading deployment. After applying for conscientious-objector status 11 days before his unit deployed, Benderman failed to show up when his Third Infantry Division unit departed. Benderman was [...]
According to two US anti-terrorism officials involved in the arrest, Zambian officials have detained Haroon Rashid Aswat, wanted in the US for allegedly attempting to establish an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon in 1999, and in the UK for questioning in relation to the recent London bombings , after he crossed the border from Zimbabwe. [...]
Government officials in Zimbabwe said Thursday that the program of demolitions and forced evictions called Operation Murambatsvina has ended, but opposition leaders insist that demolitions and beatings are continuing and claim a top opposition official had been detained. International and domestic criticisms of the program have been widespread, with a report by a UN envoy [...]
