Riots in eastern Afghanistan triggered by recent Newsweek-published reports of American desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo continued and spread Thursday, resulting in three more deaths . Rioting has now hit 10 Afghan provinces, including the...
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The appellate body of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that the Turkish trial of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan was unfair , stating that Ocalan was not...
The investigations subcommittee of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported Thursday that British Member of Parliament George Galloway and French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ...
A colonel at the head of a military intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison has been reprimanded and fined $8000 in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Col. Thomas M. Pappas , commander of the 205th Military...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday approved an amendment to the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 (FAIR) which would guarantee that the sickest asbestos victims will be compensated the fastest. The FAIR...
No criminal charges are to be filed against the pilots of a Cessna 150 aircraft that flew into White House airspace Wednesday, prompting evacuations of the White House, the Capitol, and nearby...
The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2005: Unequal Protection, Council on American Islamic Relations, May 11, 2005 [finding that hate crimes and civil rights violations against Muslims in the United States have reached their highest point...
A Global Alliance Against Forced Labor, International Labor Organization, May 11, 2005 . Excerpt:Forced labour must be punishable as a crime. This is, in fact, almost universally the case today. The vast...
Plata et al. v. Schwarzenegger et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Judge Thelton E. Henderson, May 10, 2005 [citing bad health care received by inmates in California prisons and giving California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
A US Army sergeant from Georgia faces a court martial Thursday at Fort Stewart on charges of refusing to obey his redeployment order and serve in Iraq after his first eight-month tour. The Army rejected...
