Search Results for: 2006-03-07

Wire services are reporting that the US Supreme Court has ruled that military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are illegal under military law and the Geneva Conventions , holding in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [Duke Law...

An appeals court in Japan on Friday dismissed the appeal of a lawsuit brought in 1997 by 42 Chinese plaintiffs against the Japanese government and ten Japanese corporations seeking compensation for forced labor, saying the statute...

The Serbian Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld 40-year prison sentences for four former members of a special police unit that took orders from then-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to kill ex-Serb President Ivan Stambolic in...

The Chinese government has postponed the trial against former New York Times researcher Zhao Yan , which was scheduled to begin Thursday, Zhao's lawyer said Wednesday. Zhao was indicted for "providing state secrets to foreigners" following a...

AP is reporting that US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona has been sentenced to 90 days hard labor without confinement and a reduction in rank for abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ....

AP is reporting that a military jury has found US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona guilty of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . Cardona was charged with maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and assault...

Shortly after a meeting with President Bush, new Iraqi ambassador to the United States and former Iraq ambassador to the United Nations Samir al-Sumaida'ie said in a CNN interview Tuesday that US Marines intentionally killed ...

A high-ranking US Army officer testified Wednesday in the court-martial of Sgt. Santos Cardona, the second of two soldiers accused of using unmuzzled dogs to terrify detainees during interrogations at the Abu Ghraib [JURIST news...

Court-martial proceedings against US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona began Monday on charges of maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and assault connected to Cardona's alleged use of unmuzzled dogs when questioning detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib...

US journalist Edward Caraballo, one of three US citizens jailed in 2004 on charges of running a private jail and torturing eight Afghan men, was released Sunday from Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison by presidential decree. Caraballo, former US...