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The Sindh provincial High Court in Pakistan has started formal hearings for an appeal by four Islamic militants convicted of kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl . British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh [Wikipedia...

Pakistan's Supreme Court announced it will allow six constitutional petitions to challenge President Pervez Musharraf's decision to remain the country's president and army chief of staff. The petitions, filed by Pakistan Lawyers Forum, the Communist...

In Tuesday's international brief, state prosecutors for South Africa have appealed to the Constitutional Court for permission to retry Dr. Wouter Basson, a scientist allegedly employed by the apartheid government to create a "smart virus"...

A British permanent resident being held at Guantanamo Bay has been blinded in one eye after an assault by guards at the prison, according to his lawyer. UK human rights attorney Clive Stafford Smith said that...

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has conceded that claims by Mahdouh Habib , a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, that he was tortured while held in Egypt may be true. Downer, who made the comments...

Eleven Kuwaiti detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have said that US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent overseas to the US naval base, according to a lawyer's notes that were declassified and released...

Another former Guantanamo Bay prisoner has come forward with allegations of torture and abuse by US personnel. Sunday's UK Independent newspaper has disclosed that British national Moazzam Begg , one of four Britons released from the facility last...

Mamdouh Habib , an Australian who has been held for the last 3 years at the terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, returned home to Australia Friday. Habib was arrested in Pakistan in 2001,...

Steven Hopper, lawyer for soon-to-be-released Australian Gitmo detainee Mamdouh Habib , has said that Habib has been subject to atrocities fit for a "vulgar concentration camp" while detained at Guantanamo Bay. Hopper said that interrogators...

Leading Friday's international brief, a key member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement , now the ruling party in Southern Sudan, has expressed concern about the makeup of the proposed UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in March....