A day after lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks , said they have evidence that Hicks suffered sexual abuse and torture while in US custody, the Australian government has...
Mohamed ElBaradei , Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Monday called for the start of negotiations on the long-stalled Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty , a global treaty banning the further production...
Paul Volcker, chairman of an independent commission probing the now defunct UN oil-for-food program , blamed lapses at the UN on a "systemic problem" and said he found only "limited" corruption during his testimony [hearing...
US military investigating officer Col. Patrick Reinhert on Tuesday recommended a court-martial for Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez, a National Guard soldier charged with killing two of his superiors in Iraq . Col. Reinhert also noted that capital...
Kane v. Esipita, United States Supreme Court, October 28, 2005 [ruling per curiam that a California inmate was not entitled to a new trial even though he was denied virtually all access to a jail law library while representing himself...
The US Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Monday released the final draft of rules requiring certain insurance companies to launch anti-money laundering campaigns to frustrate efforts of terrorist groups. The rules,...
Yigal Amir , who was convicted of assassinating former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ten years ago this November, may demand a re-trial. According to his wife in an interview on Israeli Army Radio, Amir believes...
Three UN human rights experts who were invited last Friday by the Pentagon to examine conditions at Guantanamo Bay prison said Monday that they will refuse the invitation unless they are...
Resolution 1636 (2005), United Nations Security Council, October 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the resolution and a synopsis of member statements....
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Kane v. Espitia that California inmate Joe Garcia Espitia isn't entitled to a new trial because he was denied virtually all access to a jail law library while representing...