US Army officer, interrogator facing Afghan detainee abuse hearings
An Article 32 hearing will begin next Monday for a US Army captain to determine if he should face a court martial on charges that he poorly supervised military police officers guarding suspected terrorists at...
New Liberian leader vows to punish rapists during her presidency
Liberia's president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , soon to becomethe first female president of an African state, vowed Monday that all rapists will be appropriately punished during her presidency according to a new law. The country's parliament passed...
The British government has introduced several amendments to the proposed Terrorism Bill and will allow possible future amendments to be considered, leader of the UK Lords, Baroness Amos announced Sunday. The changes to the bill include...
Dutch trial of suspected terrorists tests new anti-terror law
The trial of fourteen men alleged to belong to a terrorist group operating in Amsterdam begins Monday and is the first test of new Dutch anti-terror legislation allowing for the prosecution of individuals for "membership ...
Police in Bangladesh said Sunday they had detained nearly 50 more suspected Islamist militants connected with several recent suicide attacks on the countrys judiciary, bringing the total of suspects rounded up in the past week at...
An Egyptian court has ruled that closed-circuit TV cameras will be installed in polling places in order to allow independent monitors to watch ballot counting in Egypt's parliamentary elections , which will finish with the third round...
Lower courts in Uzbekistan Saturday sentenced 25 more men found guilty of involvement in the May 2005 Andijan uprising. Thirteen defendants were sentenced by the Tashkent provincial court and 12 by the Tashkent city court; all received...
Brendan MacWade et al. v. Raymond Kelly, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Richard Berman, December 2, 2005 [holding that random police searches of bags on the New York City subway system are a...
Federal judge rules random NYC subway searches constitutional
US District Judge Richard M. Berman ruled Friday that random police searches of bags on the New York City subway system are a minimal invasion of privacy and do not violate the Constitution. The decision comes in a lawsuit...
French judiciary leak may have accelerated Belgian anti-terror raids
Belgium Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx said Thursday that Belgian anti-terror raids held Tuesday night, which resulted in 15 arrests , were accelerated in order to stem the effects of a leak reported [RTL report, in...
