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Russian prosecutors probe cartoons republication as more die in world protests
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office [MosNews backgrounder; official website in Russian] announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures of (More) |
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Yemen denies US detainee interrogation request over sovereignty concerns
Yemen officials have denied an American request to interrogate detainees taken into custody after the escape of 23 prisoners , including suspected al Qaeda members, from a Yemen prison earlier this month. A Yemen security official, speaking on cond (More) |
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Yemen to prosecute newspaper editors for publishing Muhammad cartoons
The government of Yemen has announced it will prosecute the editors of three privately owned Yemeni newspapers, the Yemen Observer , al-Ra'i el-Am and al-Huriya, for offending Islam after the newspapers reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muha (More) |
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Interpol issues global alert for escaped USS Cole bomber after Yemen prison break
Interpol Sunday issued an urgent global security alert following the escape from a prison in Yemen of 23 individuals, some of them suspected Al Qaeda members. Among the fugitives is Jamal Ahmed Badawi , the mastermind behind the 2000 terror attac (More) |
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Guantanamo hunger strikers reported near death
Several detainees involved in the continuing Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes are close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees. Despite force-feedings by the US military, there is concern for two emaciated Yemenis and a hospitalized S (More) |
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Yemen to try al Qaeda suspects released from Guantanamo Bay
Six Yemen citizens, including four who have been released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will face stand trial in a special terrorism court on accusations of belonging to al Qaeda, according to a report in the September 26 newsp (More) |
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Canadian Gitmo detainee seeks change of lawyers as military hearings get underway
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr on Wednesday asked the judge presiding over Khadr's military trial to delay proceedings so that Khadr could secure counsel with more trial experience. Khadr, 19, faces charge (More) |
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Yemen indictee boycotting reconvened Guantanamo tribunal
A Yemeni man alleged to have been an al Qaeda propagandist and security officer for Osama bin Laden told a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday that he was boycotting the just-reconvened proceedings . At a pre-trial hearing, Ali Hamz (More) |
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Gitmo tribunal proceedings resume amid fresh torture claims
The terror suspect detention facility at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay marked its fourth anniversary Wednesday, the same day military tribunals for suspected terrorists resumed after a year-long hiatus. Separate proceedings were scheduled f (More) |
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Guantanamo military commission hearings to resume
US military commission proceedings against two of a handful of charged prisoners at Guantanamo Bay , originally scheduled to restart Tuesday, have been pushed back to Wednesday in recognition of the the Feast of the Sacrifice, a Muslim holy day. Ca (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
