Fifteen Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing in March by Combatant Status Review Tribunals that concluded they were not properly classed as "enemy combatants" are still being held at the facility more than two months later, according to a Reuters report Wednesday. The Pentagon says it has delayed their release because of concerns [...]

US Marines detained 19 employees of North Carolina-based Zapata Engineering for 3 days, after reportedly witnessing the contractors open fire on troops and civilians in Iraq, the US military announced Tuesday. The employees, including 16 Americans, most of whom were security personnel, and 3 Iraqi translators, have resigned their positions and have returned to the [...]

A father and son have been arrested and charged with lying to federal agents after the son admitted to attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan, the FBI said on Tuesday. Hamid Hayat, 22, is charged with lying about attending the camp. Hamid's father, Umer Hayat, 47, is charged with lying about his son's activities [...]

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles Wednesday criticized the UK for its methods of detaining terror suspects . In a report to the Council Gil-Robles specifically targeted "control orders", a form of house arrest instituted by the British government earlier this year after indefinite detention was deemed a human rights violation. Under [...]

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , a former Khmer Rouge soldier, responded to an opposition proposal Wednesday by saying that the families of the 1.7 million victims of the hardline communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 should not be paying for genocide trials . Members of the Sam Rainsy Party [...]

Theodor Meron , president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that the tribunal will miss a 2008 trial completion date set by the UN Security Council, extending at least into 2009. Meron said the tribunal can't cut corners at the expense of "due process and human rights norms in order [...]

The US will end its lone opposition to Mohamed ElBaradei , Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Wednesday in exchange for concessions involving Iran and the fight against nuclear arms proliferation. ElBaradei is arriving in Washington to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and new Undersecretary of State for Arms Control Robert Joseph [...]

Doe v. Moore, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt: In this putative class action, initiated by ten John Does and one Jane Doe (collectively "Appellants") on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, we determine whether Florida's sex offender registration/notification scheme ("Sex Offender Act") and [...]

2004 Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, FBI, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt: The number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement agencies in the United States decreased 1.7 percent in 2004 when compared to 2003 data. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The number of property crimes reported in [...]

The US Senate Finance Committee released a report Tuesday saying stricter laws may be necessary to prevent insider deals, regulate moneymaking ventures, and open more activities to public scrutiny in large nonprofit organizations. The recommendation follows a two-year investigation of the Nature Conservancy , a nonprofit land conservation organization, which revealed that the charity acted [...]