Search Results for: 2004-02-04

Kizza Besigye, the opposition candidate for president of Uganda, was arrested with several of his supporters on Friday. Besigye was arrested as the election commission released early results that showed incumbent President Yoweri Museveni leading the election with...

Bosnian police arrested three former policemen, including previously-convicted Darko Mrdja, on new charges of war crimes against non-Serb detainees during the Bosnian War. The three suspects have been accused of killing at least 10 non-Serbs as part...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday declined to assert jurisdiction over whether Northwestern University football players can form a union, overturning its 2014 decision which recognized the players as...

Shafqat Hussain, a man convicted of kidnapping and killing a seven-year-old child in 2004, was hanged on Tuesday in Karachi, Pakistan. This case has attracted ongoing international attention, as his execution was postponed four times for...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a case in which relatives of guerrilla conflict victims in Colombia sought to sue Chiquita Brand International for human rights abuses. Family members of...

A Salvadoran ex-general linked to human rights abuses during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s was deported from the US on Wednesday. Former General Eugenio Vides Casanova will not face charges in El Salvador due to...

A court in Nairobi on Tuesday ordered five Kenyan citizens and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while authorities investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre. The court granted state lawyers' request for the...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged the Taiwanese authorities to "drop criminal charges against people solely for participating in or organizing peaceful demonstrations ... after more than 100 people were charged for protesting during the...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday approved the war crimes trial of Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi , a former leader of al Qaeda's army between 2002 and 2004. The former CIA captive has...

Judge Timothy Black of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled on Monday that Ohio authorities must recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states. The court found that the state's...