Former Polish prime minister Leszek Miller on Tuesday denied any knowledge of a secret CIA prison in Poland. Miller’s denial came after a former CIA agent confirmed that the agency tortured alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in 2002 at a secret prison in Poland. According to the agent, al-Nashiri was stripped naked and [...]

The EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding on Tuesday threatened legal action against France for its deportation of Roma , calling the initiative “a disgrace.” Reding’s statement, which came one day after French media leaked an interior ministry circular document directing a priority of clearing Roma from illegal camps, criticizes France’s [...]

Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , accused of attempting to set off an explosive device on a flight last December, fired his lawyer on Monday and inquired about the process for pleading guilty. Abdulmutallab indicated to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan that he did not believe his lawyers were serving [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday opened the fifteenth session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by addressing human rights violations in countries including the US, France, China and Russia. Pillay began her remarks by noting the current condition of human suffering caused by natural disasters, violence and attacks on [...]

Amy Pisani : “In February of 2009 a special vaccine court exonerated vaccines in the debate over the causes of autism. The three Special Masters ruled that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), given in combination with thimerosal-containing vaccines, does not cause, or contribute to, autism. The ruling was consistent with 18 major scientific studies which have [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York sentenced former IBM senior vice president Robert Moffat to six months in prison Monday and ordered him to pay a $50,000 fine for his role in the largest insider trading trading case in US history. In March, Moffat pleaded guilty to [...]

The US Senate Impeachment Trial Committee began hearing arguments Monday in the case against federal judge Thomas Porteous who is charged with perjury and accepting bribes from lawyers while a judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana . Porteous’s lawyer Jonathan Turley claimed in his opening statement that “Judge Porteous’s [...]

Representatives from Russia and Georgia appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday for the beginning of a hearing to determine whether the court has jurisdiction to hear allegations that Russia committed human rights abuses following the secession of two sections of Georgia in the 1990s. The hearing was necessitated after Russia challenged [...]

Violent crime in the US dropped for the third year in a row, according to the annual crime statistics for 2009 , released Monday by the FBI. The FBI’s Crime in the United States, 2009 report showed a total 5.3 percent decrease in violent crimes between 2008 and 2009 to 1,318,398. Specifically, the number of [...]

A judge from Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran on Sunday released from prison Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election , after she posted bail of USD $500,000, according to a local press reports. While Judge Pierre Abbasi has not yet issued a final ruling or announced Ahari’s [...]