A Canadian Federal Court judge has ruled that intelligence authorities must stop interrogating Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Justice Konrad von Finckenstein's decision also slammed Canadian counterterrorism agents for gathering information at a place where he claims Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been violated. Khadr has admitted killing a US medic while [...]

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that five men turned over to them by US authorities at Guantanamo have been released. No names were given, but an official said the five had completed the judicial process and any prison terms. It's unclear how long each prisoner was detained or when they were turned over. The US [...]

Protesters in cities across Asia Wednesday urged government officials in Japan to apologize for the actions of the Imperial Army and compensate women forced into sexual slavery in brothels run by the Japanese military before and during WWII. The nearly 200,000, mostly Korean sex slaves known as "comfort women" have received some apologies from the [...]

Despite answering questions before the Iraqi Special Tribunal in late June, former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz said Tuesday that he will not testify against Saddam Hussein at his upcoming trial. Saddam has been officially been charged only for the 1982 killings of dozens of Shiites in response to an assassination attempt though more [...]

Pakistan's chief election commissioner Abdul Hameed Dogar Wednesday promised to take swift and severe action against anyone prohibiting women from accessing polls in next week's local government elections. Dogar said he would go so far as to cancel results in areas where women were barred from casting votes. The statements come after the country's North [...]

Public Advocate of the United States , a right-wing group based in Virginia, announced Wednesday that they would become the first conservative group to oppose the nomination of John Roberts to the US Supreme Court. The group is protesting his behind-the-scenes work on Romer v. Evans , a 1996 case where the Supreme Court overturned [...]

Russian Federal Prisons Service director Yuri Kalinin said Wednesday that the transfer of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a larger cell with more inmates was "normal prison procedure" and not a form of punishment. Lawyers for Khodorkovsky said earlier this week that he had been denied access to newspapers and television and moved to [...]

Britain's Conservative Party leader Michael Howard Wednesday joined an earlier call by former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett for the British courts not to interfere with Parliament's efforts to enact new anti-terrorism laws. Prime Minister Tony Blair has made some controversial proposals, including advocating a possible amendment to the Human Rights Act if it interferes [...]

After his arrest in Buenos Aires earlier this week, Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic agreed Tuesday to be extradited and face new charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , according to court papers. The UN court says that Lukic will face charges of crimes against humanity and violations of laws [...]

The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in favor of Disney executives Tuesday in a shareholder suit that alleged that the Disney board violated their duties by ratifying a 1996 decision to fire former company president Michael Ovitz with severance. Shareholders filed suit objecting to the $140 million severance package given to Ovitz, who only held [...]