Canadian Federal Court Justice Anne Mactavish reserved decision Wednesday after hearing arguments in the case of US military deserter Jeremy Hinzman , who fled to Canada in January 2004 with his wife and son to avoid deployment to Iraq. The Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board denied Hinzman’s request for refugee status last March, saying he [...]

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The US Senate Committee on Armed Services will investigate conflicting reports about the use of dogs in abusing detainees at the US military prison of Abu Ghraib . Chairman Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said that the committee will look into disparate statements allegedly made by US Army Maj.-Gen. Geoffrey Miller . According to Sen. Lindsey [...]

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The Guantanamo Detainees: The Government's Story, Professor Mark Denbeaux et al., Seton Hall Law School, February 7, 2006 . Excerpt: This Report is the first effort to provide a more detailed picture of who the Guantanamo detainees are, how they ended up there, and the purported bases for their enemy combatant designation. The data in [...]

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French Judge Fabrice Burgaud told a parliamentary inquiry Wednesday that he had not acted incorrectly when investigating pedophilia charges in the French town of Outreau. Thirteen people were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39 months in jail before all the convictions were finally overturned late last year after the accuser admitted that her accusations [...]

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The World Trade Organization has made a preliminary ruling that European Union restrictions on genetically engineered crops violate international trade rules. The United States, Canada, Argentina – which together grow 80 percent of all biotech crops sold commercially – challenged the process by which the EU regulates such crops. The countries argued that the EU's [...]

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