In an interview with Reuters reported Monday, Chief Justice Rizgar Mohammed Amin of the Iraqi High Criminal Court , also known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal, trying Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants played down security...
The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic has been further delayed due to Milosevic's poor health, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Judge Patrick Robinson announced Monday. The trial was set...
The German trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was postponed Tuesday after Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen fired one of Zundel's lawyers. Judge Meinerzhagen fired Sylvia Stolz because he believed Stolz would not defend Zundel properly, but...
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has delayed the sentencing trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui by one month and ordered a two-stage process to determine whether or not he will receive...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Tuesday announced that it has launched its largest international wave of legal action against illegal online file-sharing. This latest push targeted 2,100 alleged uploaders [IFPI...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that parents who challenge special education programs for not meeting their children's needs must bear the burden of proving the programs' inadequacies, and not school officials. The case,...
The Pentagon has said that it is committed to proceeding with a preliminary military commission hearing for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks despite the US Supreme Court's announcement Monday that...
US President George W. Bush on Monday defended US interrogation techniques in the war on terror and insisted that the US does not torture terror detainees. Answering questions about reports of a secret...
Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh was removed from his position Monday at his own request after allegations arose that he improperly benefited from the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program in Iraq. According to the government,...
A group of asylum-seekers originating from Asia and Africa has begun a hunger strike in a detention camp in southwest Morocco in an attempt to gain refugee status from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , the...