Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opened a national reconciliation conference in Baghdad Saturday by signaling a reversal of the ban on former Baath Party members in the Iraqi government that has applied since the days of the...
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Raed Juhi , the Iraqi judge who presided over the investigative stage of the legal proceedings against ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein , said Saturday he was stepping down from that position after the other judges...
The Public Committee against Torture in Israel et al. v. The Government of Israel et al., The Supreme Court of Israel Sitting as the High Court of Justice, December 14, 2006 [ruling that not all Israeli targeted killings of Palestinian...
Hamdan. Rumsfeld, US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge James Robertson, December 13, 2006 . Read the full...
Talks between representatives of the Nepal government and Maoist rebels have failed to result in an agreement on the terms of an interim constitution for the country but will continue later this week, according to a Maoist spokesman speaking...
A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a habeas corpus petition brought by Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan , finding it was clearly barred under the controversial habeas-stripping language of the new Military Commissions Act (MCA)...
Outgoing Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed an agreement Wednesday allowing Massachusetts state troopers to detain illegal immigrants found or located while the troopers are performing their general duties. The agreement, co-signed by US Immigration and...
The UN General Assembly Wednesday adopted by acclamation a new international treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities hailed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as "the first human rights treaty to be...
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Wednesday laid out an ambitious oversight agenda for the reshuffled Senate Judiciary Committee he will chair when the Democratic-controlled US Congress begins its new session in January. Speaking at Georgetown University...
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Wednesday laid out an ambitious agenda for the reshuffled Senate Judiciary Committee he will chair when the Democratic-controlled US Congress begins its new session in January. Speaking at Georgetown University Law...
