AP is reporting that a military jury has found US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona guilty of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . Cardona was charged with maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and assault...
A spokesperson for German spy agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) on Thursday said that a low-ranking agent knew in January 2004 that German citizen Khalid el-Masri had been arrested in Macedonia and turned over...
Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial on Thursday accused US and Iraqi officials of illegally detaining four witnesses who testified Wednesday that chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Musawi had tried to bribe them to testify against Hussein...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday issued an order lifting the confidentiality of its health records for Slobodan Milosevic , the former Yugoslav leader accused of war crimes and crimes...
The Swedish Riksdag has approved a law that could allow the country to incarcerate former Liberian President Charles Taylor if he is convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [JURIST...
An additional 14 Guantanamo Bay detainees have gone on hunger strike, Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand said Thursday, bringing the total number of detainees on hunger strike to 89 after it was announced Monday that the number...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum to comply with discovery requests related to a lawsuit filed by legal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) ...
Former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov suffered from a heart attack Thursday while in custody on fraud and abuse of office charges. Adamov's lawyers told Interfax news that although Adamov has received...
The Supreme Court of Spain on Thursday overturned the Sept. 11 conspiracy conviction of Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas , but upheld his conviction as the leader of an al Qaeda cell in Spain....
Kenya's National Assembly has unanimously approved a sex-crimes law after a month of heated debate over several controversial provisions, most of which were dropped in order to pass the bill . Legislators dropped provisions criminalizing marital rape and...