The Special Court for Sierra Leone found three former RUF guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the country’s civil war.
Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—although five co-defendants were convicted.
A Lebanese judge granted bail to three men suspected in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—days before the planned start-up of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that two former Israeli lobbyists may use classified documents in their defense against charges under the 1917 Espionage Act.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has called for a review of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace immigration raid that occurred in Bellingham, WA.
US Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed the Obama administration’s intention to close Guantánamo Bay in 2010 despite his belief that the facility is now well-run and that detainees are not abused.
A US Green Beret was found not guilty at court-martial of murder and mutilating a dead body in connection with the March 2008 killing of an Afghan man near Hyderabad, Afghanistan.
US citizen and accused al-Qaeda member Christopher Paul was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to conduct a terrorist bombing campaign against targets in the US and Europe.
An unexploded bomb forced the evacuation of the airport in in Mexico’s violence-torn Ciudad Juárez, while a bomb threat cleared the border city’s courthouse as federal officials were holding a security meeting.
Convicted drug kingpin Miguel Caro Quintero AKA “Michael Jackson” was extradited to the US after eight years in a Mexican prison. With his brother Rafael, he is said to have led the Guadalajara Cartel.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement in California, Minnesota, and Maryland arrested 50 people who the US Justice Department claims are operatives of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
An appeals court in Paris overturned the terrorism convictions of five French nationals formerly detained at Guantánamo Bay, finding that they had been improperly questioned by French authorities at the camp.
