China announced Tuesday that it will crack down on Chinese police officials' use of improper interrogation methods on criminal suspects. Chinese police are notorious for using coercion and torture while interrogating suspects . Prosecutors must now review all a criminal's police records as well as explicitly question the suspect to ensure that they were not [...]
Despite President Bush's veto threat, the Senate Tuesday passed a $295-billion highway bill to build more roads and create jobs by an 89-11 vote. The White House said $284 billion was the most it would approve; the House bill was for this amount . The Senate added $11 billion to the bill but said it [...]
Uzbekistan Prosecutor-General Rashid Kadyrov Tuesday denied reports that Uzbek government forces opened fire on demonstrators Friday who were protesting government repression in the eastern city of Andijan. Although Kadyrov claimed that no civilians were killed by government fire, hundreds of witnesses reported that the government troops did shoot into a crowd of hundreds of peaceful [...]
British Member of Parliament George Galloway Tuesday vehemently denied charges that he benefited from the UN Oil-for-Food program while testifying during a hearing before the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations . The subcommittee of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released a report last Thursday accusing Galloway of accepting "allocations" [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Tuesday referred a war crimes case to a Bosnian national court, the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina , the first time it has authorized such a transfer. Under pressure to wrap up cases from the Balkan wars by 2010, the court [...]
An Islamist website has posted a message from Iraq's Al-Qaeda group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi urging Sunni Muslims not to participate in the Iraqi political process, especially the drafting of the new constitution, and calling any who would take part infidels: "Would anyone draft the constitution other than those who do not believe [...]
A UK lawyer representing three Westerners allegedly tortured in a Saudi Arabian prison said Tuesday that her firm would attempt to seize Saudi assets in Britain, including those of Saudi Arabian Airlines, as reparation for the men's mistreatment and to pay for overdue legal costs. The men – two British nationals and a British-Canadian citizen [...]
A court in Paris jailed three men for 2 to 7 years Tuesday for offering logistical support to al Qaeda agents who killed Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood shortly before the attacks on September 11th, 2001. The north African trio – Abderrahmane Ameuroud, Adel Tibourski, and Youssef el Aouni – were convicted of funding [...]
Rape defendant and accused killer Brian Nichols pleaded not guilty in Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse Tuesday to multiple counts of murder, kidnapping, escape, and other charges in connection with the March 11 shootings at the same courthouse when he allegedly overpowered a deputy sheriff, stole her gun, and then shot presiding judge Rowland Barnes and [...]
The trial of Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the sole surviving member of the militant group responsible for Beslan School Crisis in September 2004, began Tuesday under tight security in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia's North Ossetian region. Kulayev has been charged with terrorism, banditry and murder, among other things. While he admits playing a role in the [...]
