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Search Results for: Albania

Italy deports former Guantanamo detainee to home country of Tunisia

April 20, 2011 12:35:00 PM

Italy deported a Tunisian national and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Wednesday for his connections to an extremist group that had planned various acts of terrorism in the country. Accompanied by Italian officials, Abdel Ben Mabrouk [NYT...

March 28, 2011 03:11:10 PM

Kosovo's Constitutional Court on Monday declared last month's presidential election of Behgjet Pacolli unconstitutional . The decision comes after a complaint was filed by opposition parliamentarians who alleged irregularities in the voting process by...

March 17, 2011 12:45:03 PM

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Wednesday arrested nine suspects , all former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), on suspicions of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 war in...

March 11, 2011 05:30:24 PM

US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) , along with five cosponsors, introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit funding for civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees and place restrictions on the transfer of detainees to foreign countries....

February 17, 2011 05:06:58 PM

UN Special Representative to Kosovo Lamberto Zannier on Wednesday requested that the UN Security Council open an independent investigation into alleged incidents of organ trafficking , inhuman treatment and other crimes by the...

February 8, 2011 09:44:35 AM

A Milan court on Monday ordered Italian authorities to release former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdel Ben Mabrouk , finding that the eight years Mabrouk served at Guantanamo and the year he spent in an Italian...

February 1, 2011 10:27:45 AM

An Italian court on Monday convicted former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri on terror charges and sentenced the Tunisian man to six years in prison. Prosecutors accused Nasri of working for a...

January 26, 2011 08:06:09 AM

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) demanded Tuesday that Albania and Kosovo investigate and prosecute alleged incidents of organ trafficking, inhuman treatment and other crimes by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [official...

January 11, 2011 08:03:42 AM

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged President Barack Obama make greater efforts to close Guantanamo Bay despite congressional opposition. In the press release, issued on the eve of the facility's ninth...

January 9, 2011 12:30:24 PM

President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill barring the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the US for trial. The Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 authorizes funding for defense interests abroad, military...

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