The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the State Secrets Protection Act , sending the legislation to the Senate floor for consideration. The legislation, approved by a 11-8 vote on Thursday, would place restrictions on...
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Senate judiciary panel advances bill curbing state secrets privilege
US Army sergeant found not guilty in Kirkuk Iraqi civilian murder
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Federal appeals court reinstates class action against credit card arbitration
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ECCC cleared of mismanaging funds in independent audit
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Zimbabwe police raid offices of opposition party, election observers
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Over 3,000 sentences reduced under retroactive drug penalties amendment
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US Marine charged in Fallujah murder should face court-martial: hearing officer
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ICTY transfers Bosnian Croat leader to serve war crimes sentence in Italy
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ECHR rules Russia violated rights of 13 detained Andijan uprising suspects
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Argentina police arrest former police chief ‘Dirty War’ suspect
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US Army Sgt. 1st Class Trey A. Corrales was acquitted by a military jury on Friday of charges connected to the 2007 killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near the city of Kirkuk . Corrales was...
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing an antitrust class action lawsuit against a group of banks that require credit cardholders to use arbitration...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was cleared of financial mismanagement in an independent audit released Friday. The review was ordered by the ECCC Project Board in...
Zimbabwean police Friday raided the offices of independent election observers and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) , arresting hundreds in an alleged crackdown on anti-government subversives. Witnesses say that police were searching for vote counting materials...
Over 3,000 prison inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses have had their sentences reduced under an amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines , according to a study released Thursday by the US Sentencing Commission ....
US Marine Sgt. Jermaine A. Nelson should face court-martial for the November 2004 murder of an Iraqi detainee in Fallujah , a US Marine hearing officer found following an Article 32 pretrial hearing . Nelson was...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Friday that it has transferred a former Bosnian Croat leader who was convicted of war crimes related to the torture and persecutions...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Russia violated the civil rights of 13 men accused of terrorism in Uzbekistan by detaining them without trial for 20 months. In 2006, Russia...
Argentinean politician and former police chief and mayor Luis Abelardo Patti, wanted by Argentina for allegedly torturing and killing several people during Argentina's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" , was arrested in Buenos Aires...
