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Article: US Justice Dept urges terror label for Nigerian militants
The Justice Department is pressing the State Department to designate Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group alleged to be responsible for hundreds of deaths, as a "foreign terrorist organisation." [related-articles]Lisa Monaco,...
Article: Libya's new penal code: same old story
Libyan and western human rights groups have accused Libya’s government of giving a ‘blanket amnesty’ for war crimes committed by rebel forces in last year’s civil war after the publication of a new addition to the...
Article: Victor’s justice? Zintani rebels pledge to try Saif al-Islam
The leaders of Libya’s mountain town of Zintan say they will hold the war crimes trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi at home, posing a further complication to a tug-of-war for the suspect being fought by Libya and the International...
Article: Interview: General Butt Naked: From warlord to preacher
The documentary “The Redemption of General Butt Naked” (2011) tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi--aka General Butt Naked. A feared warlord during Liberia’s civil war, he’s now a Christian evangelist travelling...
Article: US court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that John Yoo, a former legal counsel to the Bush administration, is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen convicted on terrorism charges who said he was tortured at a military jail in South...
Article: Bosnia opens trial of Muslims for war crimes
Eight Bosnian Muslim wartime officials went on trial on Thursday accused of the torture and abuse of Serbs in detention camps near the Serb-besieged capital Sarajevo, 20 years after the start of the 1992-95 war. Few cases have been opened...
Article: Britain mired in row over cleric's deportation
Britain voiced its frustration Thursday at the legal tangle in the European Court of Human Rights preventing London from deporting a radical cleric, as it hosted talks on taming the court's powers. Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to...
Article: Brazil judge sets record straight on military torture
A judge has declared that the former head of Brazil's communist party was tortured to death by the military here during the dictatorship in 1976. In a landmark ruling disclosed in the media Wednesday, Judge Guilherme Madeira Dezem...
Article: US top court: torture law applies only to people
The Palestinian Authority and PLO cannot be sued under a 1991 U.S. victim protection law over the alleged torture of an American in a West Bank prison, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, holding that the law only applies to individuals...
Article: ICC and Libya: Defence to offence
Defence lawyers often see themselves as the Cinderellas of international courts, complaining that they are starved of resources as compared to prosecutors. By Chris Stephen, Tripoli
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Is Arizona justified in introducing stricter laws for illegal immigrants?
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