Lawyers for Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan argued at a preliminary hearing Thursday that the charges against Hamdan should be dropped because his alleged crimes were not considered violations of...
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey Thursday rejected Democratic calls to launch a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the CIA's admitted use of waterboarding on three terror detainees. In testimony before the House...
The Pakistani Interior Ministry has arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto , officials said Thursday. The two men, identified only as Hasnain and Rafaqat, are...
Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea asked the Pre-Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) to release him from provisional detention Thursday and argued that his prior...
Chadian President Idriss Deby said Thursday that he is prepared to pardon six aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children. In an interview with Europe-1 radio,...
Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi has issued a decree barring judges from ordering the detention of suspects without the filing of formal charges, Iranian media reported Wednesday. Currently, the Iranian Constitution allows suspects to be held for...
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested former Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui on Wednesday on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges and transferred him to...
The lower house of the Canadian parliament passed a new security certificates bill Wednesday by a margin of 196-71 . The House of Commons introduced the bill in October in response to last year's Supreme...
The federal judge presiding over the trial of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was seeking information about the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah around the time the CIA destroyed videotapes of the interrogations...
A federal judge rejected an argument Wednesday by US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) that an indictment against him unconstitutionally violated the Speech or Debate Clause , saying that Jefferson has "focused immunity"...