US Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Thursday introduced a bill to restrict gun sales to terror suspects. S. 1237 would give the US attorney general the power and discretion to block gun sales to people listed as suspected terrorists. Under the bill, potential buyers who were denied firearms could appeal that decision to the attorney general. [...]

The office of the German Federal Prosecutor Friday declined to investigate a war crimes claim against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking US officials filed by human rights groups seeking accountability for acts of torture allegedly committed at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and in Afghanistan . The Center for Constitutional Rights, [...]

A UK special court ruled on Friday that two Libyan men suspected of involvement in terrorist activities could not be deported to Libya , overriding an agreement between the two governments. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission ordered the two men released on bail, citing concerns that they would face torture and be denied a fair [...]

Three US soldiers were indicted Friday for the 2003 death of a Spanish reporter who was killed when their tank fired a shell at a Baghdad hotel. A Spanish judge charged Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip DeCamp with homicide and "a crime against the international community" in the death of [...]

An appeals court in Milan upheld a lower court decision Friday clearing former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of charges that he bribed judges to prevent the sale of food company SME to rivals in 1985. After the lower court acquitted , then-Prime Minister Berlusconi in 2004, he passed legislation precluding an appeal of the [...]

Giovanni Di Stefano : "On the 17th March 2007 I wrote to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, seeking leave to prosecute in the criminal courts in accordance with the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman, the judge that sentenced Saddam Hussein et al to death. I am pleased to confirm that the Attorney [...]

US Democratic and Republic senators sparred over the habeas corpus rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees at a US Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday. In a rare appearance as a committee witness , US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called the detention of 400 Guantanamo prisoners without charge and without recourse to traditional [...]

The Supreme Court of Japan denied compensation claims made by five Chinese wartime slave laborers Friday, ruling that companies that utilized Chinese individuals were not obligated to provide compensation because the 1972 Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China renounced Chinese claims for war reparations from [...]

Ben Davis : "Taking together the report of the Justice Department filing to reduce access of lawyers to GITMO detainee clients, the medical establishment's approach to those detainees, and snippets of George Tenet's interview on 60 Minutes about his new book, one can see that these detainees are perceived as much more than just enemies [...]

The US Marine Corps has been told to expect charges to be filed against five to seven Marines who are being investigated for killing ten civilians near Jalalabad, Afghanistan on March 4, according to a Marine official speaking on the condition of anonymity. A preliminary US military investigation found that the Marines were among of [...]