A US military judge at Guantanamo Bay Thursday set October 8 as the date for the military commission trial of Canadian-born Omar Khadr . Khadr's military defense lawyer Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler said that...
Chief Justice Royce Lamberth of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held an off-the-record meeting Wednesday with defense lawyers for enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay to discuss court...
Former Serbian chief of state security Radomir Markovic was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for his role in a 1999 assassination attempt on then-Yugoslav opposition leader Vuk Draskovic . The Supreme Court of Serbia also sentenced...
Italy's highest court of appeal, the Court of Cassation , Thursday ruled that Italian courts lack jurisdiction to try a US soldier accused of shooting an intelligence agent in Iraq. Last year, Italian prosecutors filed an...
Malaysian rights group Suaram Thursday published its annual report on the state of human rights in the country, saying that conditions had significantly worsened over the past year. The group cited the country's...
The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) began investigating the country's Supreme Court Monday for suspected embezzlement . The Court collects administrative fees from appellants but has so far not...
The Vestre Landsret , one of the two second-highest appeals courts in Denmark, denied Wednesday an appeal of a 2006 lower court judgment dismissing a lawsuit concerning caricatures of the...
Thirty-nine accused Darfur rebels appeared before special courts in Sudan to be tried under a 2001 anti-terrorism law Wednesday. The accused allegedly belong to the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) , which Sudanese officials accuse...
The US congress voted late Wednesday to override President George W. Bush's veto of the new Farm Bill . The override passed easily in both chambers, with votes of 80-14 in the Senate and 317-109...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages sent on work cell phones. The present case was bought by an Ontario...