Attempts to bring war crimes suspect and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to trial were long delayed by the US, France, and England, a former spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said in a interview published in Serbian newspaper Blic on Sunday. Florence Hartmann accused former US President Bill Clinton and [...]
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A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Monday refused to grant a temporary injunction allowing concealed firearms in non-secure areas of the Atlanta International Airport. Gun ownership advocacy group GeorgiaCarry.org (GCO) and state Representative Tim Bearden (R-Villa Rica) had sought to temporarily prevent the airport from enforcing a [...]
Russian legislators on Monday adopted a measure calling for the establishment of an international tribunal charged with investigating allegations of genocide in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia. Russia's Prosecutor General, Yury Chaika , responded to the request on Tuesday, asserting that no such body is required , since any grievances could be resolved in [...]
The newly-formed state council of the military group which overthrew the government of Mauritania last week passed a law on Tuesday conferring on its leader, Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, all the powers of deposed President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi . On Monday, the group released Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waqef and three other [...]
Deborah Colson : "Last Wednesday, a panel of six military officers returned a split verdict in the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan, convicting Mr. Hamdan of material support for terrorism but acquitting him of the more serious offense of conspiracy. Mr. Hamdan acted as Osama bin Laden's driver, said the panel, but the government [...]
Sudan is merely going through the motions with its planned probe into Darfur human rights violations, said International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in an interview with the Sudan Tribune on Monday. Moreno-Ocampo commented that Sudan does not have the political will to bring human rights offenders to justice, noting that an earlier Sudanese [...]
The Philippines House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday to create a new national commission meant to guarantee the rights of Muslims citizens. The bill creates a National Commission on Muslim Filipinos to replace the existing Office of Muslim Affairs (OMA) , created in 1987. The new commission will be responsible for addressing complaints [...]
Georgia is forcibly detaining Russian citizens within its borders in violation of international law, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a Monday communication with Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev. In the communication, Medvedev instructed Nurgaliev to ensure that the rights of ethnic Georgians in Russia are protected: I have received information, and you have [...]
Pakistan's Punjab Provincial Assembly on Monday voted to ask President Pervez Musharraf to resign or face possible impeachment by the country's parliament. Of the body's 371 members, 321 voted for the motion, including the majority of Musharraf's own Pakistan Muslim League-Q party. In response to the vote and impeachment plans led by the country's coalition [...]
Qwest Communications will pay an additional $40 million to settle a class action shareholder lawsuit, according to an agreement released Monday in the company's second quarter earnings report . Of that number, $5 million comes from insurance revenue by former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio and former CFO Robert Woodruff. In 2006, a federal judge approved [...]
