Search Results for: 2008-09-18

Iraq's Presidency Council Wednesday withdrew its objections to a provincial elections law detailing the relationship between Iraq's central and local governments. In a statement issued Wednesday, the three-member Presidency Council, comprised of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice...

Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr said in an affidavit released Tuesday that US interrogators in Afghanistan threatened him with rape, physically abused him, and forced him to swear to false statements. The 63-item statement,...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that an alleged top al-Qaeda operative has been transferred from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay. Muhammad Rahim, a former messenger for Osama bin Laden said to have helped the...

China's Supreme People's Court overturned 15 percent of death sentences imposed by lower courts during 2007, the president of the Supreme Court's criminal law chamber said in a Saturday China News report . Huang Ermei...

Iraq's Presidency Council Wednesday rejected a draft provincial elections law that detailed the relationship between Iraq's central and local governments, sending the legislation back to the Iraqi Council of Representatives . The draft law was part...

Iraq's three-member Presidency Council said Sunday that a bill allowing most former members of Saddam Huessein's Baath party to be reinstated to public life has become law. The controversial Accountability and Justice Law , passed by the...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Saturday that he supports a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party to return to their old positions in government. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday praised a bill passed Saturday by the Iraqi parliament that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to...

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Thursday announced plans to phase out gunshot executions of condemned prisoners and instead switch to lethal injections . Court vice-president Jiang Xingchang said that lethal injection was a...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that it will continue to move forward with implementation of the REAL ID Act , despite opposition among state legislatures and in the US...