Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the American Red Cross (ARC) alleging that the ARC has been improperly licensing the red cross symbol for commercial purposes. ARC President...
The Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal judge Thursday to strike down the Protect America Act 2007 as unconstitutional. The new law, signed by US President George W. Bush Sunday, gives...
Canadian intelligence officials suspected that the United States would deport detained Canadian citizen Maher Arar to a country where he could have been subject to torture, according to previously censored information released Thursday by Canada's...
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, said Thursday that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were tortured during their eight years in Libyan custody on suspicion of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the...
Six more detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay , the US Defense Department said Thursday. According to the DOD announcement , five detainees were transferred to Afghanistan and one was transferred to Bahrain [Reuters report; BNA...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Thursday that 14 "high-value" detainees have been designated as enemy combatants based on the recommendations of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) . The detainees, including the alleged...
Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Addendum, Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, August 8, 2007 [revealing that Canadian intelligence officials suspected that the United States would deport Maher Arar...
US Marine Corps Lt. Gen. James Mattis has dismissed all charges against Lance Cpl. Justine I. Sharratt and Capt. Randy W. Stone for their alleged roles in the killing and suspected cover-up of the death of 24...
A North Carolina judge ruled Thursday that the North Carolina Council of State, comprised of Gov. Mike Easley and nine elected state officials, improperly approved new execution protocols in February as a part of their effort to...
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina entered a plea of not guilty for Bosnian Serb Milrod Trbic Thursday because Trbic failed to appear in court...