Search Results for: 2002-02-08

Moroccan born Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, who spent 13 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison, was released Thursday as part of the Obama Administration's effort to wind down and eventually close the detention center. The US...

A UK court on Monday dismissed a Spanish extradition request for Rwanda National Intelligence and Security Services head Karenzi Karake. Karake had been detained since his June arrest at a London airport, and the court ordered ...

A Bulgarian military court on Friday sentenced former intelligence chief Kircho Kirov to 10 years in prison for embezzlement. Kirov had served as the head of the National Intelligence Service from 2002 until...

The US Periodic Review Board (PRB) announced Friday that one of the longest-held detainees at Guantanamo Bay may now be released to his home country of Saudi Arabia. Abdul Rahman Shalabi has been on a...

London's Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday that it has arrested Rwanda National Intelligence and Security Services head Karenzi Karake on an international warrant for war crimes. The European Arrest Warrant was issued in 2008 by Spanish...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Monday. In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Arizona the court heard arguments on whether the town of Gilbert's content-based ordinance...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday revived a whistleblower's lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. . In a unanimous decision, the court vacated and remanded a lower court's grant...

The Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine National Congress on Thursday approved a bill that was signed into law later that day by President Cristina Fernandez to...

Soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have been sexually exploiting and assaulting Somali women, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. The abuses have allegedly occurred on two AMISOM military bases...

An Italian appeals court overturned the fraud oversight convictions of several banks on Friday. A lower court ruled that JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG and Depfa Bank Plc forced the city of Milan to enter...