CIA interrogators may be restricted to using only those interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual if US House and Senate lawmakers succeed in adding the restriction to an upcoming intelligence funding bill, aides working on...
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Over seven million men and women were in prison, in jail or on probation or parole in the US in 2006, accounting for 3.2 percent of the total US adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults, according to...
A US military judge Wednesday denied a request by lawyers for Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan to meet with top terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, citing security concerns. Lawyers had...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will be sentenced next week for ordering a 2000 warrantless search on the apartment of the wife of former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino , according to a...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo Wednesday asked the UN Security Council to press Sudan to execute outstanding arrest warrants against two Sudanese men accused of crimes against humanity in...
A group of renowned Chinese lawyers and academics Tuesday released an open letter to the Chinese government , calling for the end of "re-education" labor camps. The scholars said the camps, originally designed in 1957 to deal...
Newly declassified court documents show that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay ignored evidence clearing German-born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz of terrorist connections, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Kurnaz...
Former Pakistani prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto are in negotiations to draw up a list of formal demands they say must be met by the government of...
Disgraced Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu was indicted Tuesday on 15 additional counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) in connection with a massive alleged...
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Wednesday apologized to the thousands of Japanese women and children abandoned during Japan's retreat from China at the close of World War II, marking the first time...
