Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the death penalty. Attorneys...
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Attorneys for Hamandiya Marines allege coercion in probe
Taylor war crimes trial venue shift resolution [UN Security Council]
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Pentagon reports chronicle mistreatment of detainees
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UN Security Council passes resolution allowing Taylor trial shift to The Hague
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Nepal government makes deal with Maoist rebels on drafting interim constitution
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Romania finds no local evidence of secret CIA prisons, flights
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EU sets 2008 deadline for decision on reviving European constitution
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UK Foreign Office takes over Hicks Guantanamo release case
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Milberg Weiss trial delayed as five judges withdraw
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Specter presses Bush administration on domestic spying, signing statements
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Resolution 1688 (2006), UN Security Council, June 16, 2006 [authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the facilities...
US Department of Defense documents released Friday chronicle multiple mistreatments of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in 2003 and 2004 but stop short of labeling the instances of mistreatment illegal, describing them instead as "wrong." Over 1000 pages of...
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed to a resolution authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of...
Nepal's government and the Maoist rebels on Friday agreed to draft an interim constitution within 15 days and dissolve the parliament reinstated by the popular people's uprising in April this year. Surprisingly, the Maoists ,...
Romania has concluded an investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons located near Romanian airports in Europe's "spider's web" of CIA rendition flights , finding no evidence that the country hosted secret prisons or...
During a two-day European Union summit in Brussels , German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters Friday that attempts to revive the European Constitution will be delayed until 2008 and won't occur...
The UK Foreign Office on Friday took control of the case of Australian David Hicks , an accused Taliban member who has been detained at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay ...
The kickback fraud case against leading class action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman has hit unexpected delays as five judges from the US District Court for the Central District of California , which covers...
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has threatened to subpoena administration documents on its warrantless domestic spying program if US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales does not respond to Specter's requests to answer...
