A US soldier is currently being held in connection with the fatal shooting on Sunday of a Taliban detainee, who was found dead in a holding cell in Kandahar province, according to US Forces in Afghanistan ....
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Chairperson of the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) Claudio Grossman on Tuesday urged nations to "reconnect with the values" of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [texts and...
The Stockholm District Court on Wednesday began proceedings in the the country's first war crimes trial of Swedish citizen and former Bosnian prison guard Ahmet Makitan . Makitan is accused of violating the Geneva Convention...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the Congolese government to arrest Bosco Ntaganda , a Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes....
A federal judge on Wednesday barred key US government witness Hussein Abebe from testifying in the trial against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani . Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District...
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed an appeal Tuesday in Myanmar's Supreme Court challenging the dissolution of her opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) under a controversial election law ....
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday upheld the war crimes conviction former Croatian Parliament member Branimir Glavas for ordering the torture and death of Croatian Serbs in the...
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed an appeal by Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab , the lone gunmen to survive the three-day siege of Mumbai that killed 166 in November 2008....
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in 14 cases. In Smith v. Bayer Corp. the court will determine two issues. First the court will decide...
Polish prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will open an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a secret CIA prison in Poland. The investigation...
