Iraqi VP says other nations pressing for delay of Saddam trial
Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi told local leaders in the southern Iraqi province of Nassriya on Monday that some countries are pressing for a delay in the trial of Saddam Hussein. He did not specific which countries, but Iraq's...
Witness to Abuse Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11, joint report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union , June 26, 2005 [report claiming that the Bush administration has violated the...
Abdel Hussein Shandal, Iraq's Sunni justice minister, accused the US on Tuesday of trying to delay Iraqi efforts to interrogate Saddam Hussein. While he said he expects Saddam's trial for war crimes to be over by...
Appeals court upholds dismissal of FBI translator case on state secrecy grounds
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld a lower court dismissal of a case brought by fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds alleging security lapses in the FBI's translator program. The...
Lawfulness of detentions by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Resolution 1433 (2005), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, April 26, 2005 [condemning US detention practices at Guantanamo Bay and calling on the US to adhere to international legal standards on...
The Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog institution, condemned US detention practices at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday in a sharply-worded resolution passed by the parliamentary assembly of the 41-nation body accusing the US of having "betrayed its...
Rights group says governments accepting weak assurances against foreign torture
Human Rights Watch said in a new report Friday that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to states with well-established records...
United States v. David Chalmers at al., United States District Court Southern District of New York, April 14, 2005 [charging Texas businessman David Chalmers and others with participating in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to...
Corporations and securities brief ~ Wal-Mart faces labor union complaint
Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) , the largest US grocery union, has filed a complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ...
The Bush administration's top law enforcement officials urged renewal and expansion of USA PATRIOT Act provisions in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. FBI Director Robert Mueller asked legislators to expand the FBI's administrative...
