The chief military prosecutor for Guantanamo Bay , USAF Col. Morris Davis , Monday announced plans to charge an additional two dozen Guantanamo detainees and to seek the death penalty against several. Three of the...
DC sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad agreed Monday to allow three attorneys to stand by and provide advice upon request when he begins representing himself at his trial , set to begin May 1. Maryland Judge...
Former president of Liberia Charles Taylor is being requested to testify at the trial of a Dutch timber trader indicted for facilitating the import of weapons to Liberia in exchange for timber, a...
Thomas Cook et al. v. Donald H. Rumsfeld et al., United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Judge George A. O'Toole Jr., April 24, 2006 [dismissing a suit filed in 2004 by twelve members of the US armed...
Royal proclamation to the nation from King Gyanendra of Nepal, April 24, 2006 .English-language translation from eKantipur.com:Beloved Countrymen,Convinced that the source...
Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, April 24, 2006 [criticizing the efforts of countries around the world as ineffective in blocking the flow of people smuggled into countries, many of whom are sexually exploited...
Legal arguments began in Colchester, England, Monday in the court-martrial trial of four British soldiers accused of killing an Iraqi prisoner in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in May 2003. The four soldiers are accused of forcing Ahmed...
President Bush Monday rejected the option of deportation for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the US, asking Congress to keep in mind that we are talking about human beings, decent human beings as it prepared to take...
Text of a letter on the "nuclear option" to President George W. Bush from thirteen leading US physicists, including five Nobel Laureates, April 17, 2006 [urging that the US not consider using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of...
So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2006 [calling the use of lethal injections by US authorities "incompetent, negligent, and irresponsible" and urging the federal government and the 37 out of...