A colonel at the head of a military intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison has been reprimanded and fined $8000 in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Col. Thomas M. Pappas , commander of the 205th Military...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday approved an amendment to the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 (FAIR) which would guarantee that the sickest asbestos victims will be compensated the fastest. The FAIR...

No criminal charges are to be filed against the pilots of a Cessna 150 aircraft that flew into White House airspace Wednesday, prompting evacuations of the White House, the Capitol, and nearby...

The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2005: Unequal Protection, Council on American Islamic Relations, May 11, 2005 [finding that hate crimes and civil rights violations against Muslims in the United States have reached their highest point...

A Global Alliance Against Forced Labor, International Labor Organization, May 11, 2005 . Excerpt:Forced labour must be punishable as a crime. This is, in fact, almost universally the case today. The vast...

Plata et al. v. Schwarzenegger et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Judge Thelton E. Henderson, May 10, 2005 [citing bad health care received by inmates in California prisons and giving California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...

A US Army sergeant from Georgia faces a court martial Thursday at Fort Stewart on charges of refusing to obey his redeployment order and serve in Iraq after his first eight-month tour. The Army rejected...

Spc.Sabrina Harman , 27, will become the latest soldier in the Abu Ghraib scandal to stand trial in military court when she appears Thursday before a Fort Hood judge on charges of mistreating detainees in the military prison....

Musa Hilal, suspected leader of the Janjaweed militia active in the Darfur, said Wednesday that he would stand trial in Sudan rather than face trial outside the country. Hilal, who has consistently denied involvement in...

Kuwaiti prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will shortly be handing over to the Iraqi Special Tribunal a list of crimes committed by Saddam Hussein, whose forces invaded and occupied the country in 1990-1, precipitating the Gulf War....