US District Judge Michael Moore has ruled that federal agents who seized Elian Gonzalez during a 2000 raid did not use excessive force by firing tear gas during the raid. In his opinion , issued Friday,...
Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev may soon face new charges over their handling of the oil company's affairs, according to a report Friday in the Russian newspaper Izvestia. Russian...
The incoming Iraqi minister for human rights designated by Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari rejected the post Sunday shortly after it and five other late Iraqi cabinet appointments were approved by Iraq's National Assembly. Hashim al-Shible, former...
Dalrymple v. US, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, US District Judge Michael Moore, May 6, 2005 [ruling that federal agents who seized Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez during a 2000 raid did not use excessive force...
A leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood announced Saturday through his lawyer that he would run as a candidate against Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in upcoming elections, although his party has not formally endorsed his candidacy....
Second Periodic Report of the United States of America to the UN Committee Against Torture, US State Department, May 6, 2005. Excerpt:...global terrorism has fundamentally altered our world. In fighting terrorism, the U.S. remains committed to respecting the rule of...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told reporters Saturday in Baghdad that the vacant posts in his Cabinet sworn in last week - five ministers and one deputy prime minister - have now been filled, and...
Representative Henry Hyde, GOP chairman of the US House International Relations Committee now undertaking a Congressional review of the UN Oil-for-Food scandal, refused late Friday to hand back to the UN-appointed Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) probing the...
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld a lower court dismissal of a case brought by fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds alleging security lapses in the FBI's translator program. The...
Human rights groups Friday dismissed a new US report to the Geneva-based UN Committee Against Torture that claimed the United States was appropriately prosecuting US personnel accused of mistreating prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo and denied that the...