Central America
Guatemala: court seeks amnesty for Ríos Montt
The same court that threw out ex-dictator Ríos Montt's genocide conviction last spring is now looking for a way to get him an amnesty.
The Caribbean
Haiti: government tries to arrest opposition lawyer
Protesters and colleagues freed an attorney the government was trying to send to prison. His clients have filed corruption charges against the president’s family.
Palestine
Israeli air-strikes target northern Gaza
Israeli air-strikes targeted the northern Gaza Strip after militants fired rockets into Israel—the first such exchanges in over two months.
Southern Cone
Brazil: deadly prison riot sets off angry protests
At least 13 inmates were killed and some 30 injured in a clash between rival gangs at Pedrinhas prison in São Luis, in Brazil’s northeastern state of Maranhão.
South Asia
Bangladesh political strike follows labor unrest
A general strike called by the Islamist opposition has shut down much of Bangladesh—weeks after garment workers walked off the job and burned factories.
Watching the Shadows
Gitmo lawyer: declassify interrogation techniques
The lawyer for five Gitmo prisoners charged in the 9-11 attacks has asked President Obama to declassify the CIA interrogation program that allegedly subjected prisoners to torture.
Iran
Iran hangs 16 after Baluch border clash
Sixteen accused militants were hanged in Iran’s Baluchistan province—in apparent retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush just the night before.
Watching the Shadows
Court: no jurisdiction in ex-Gitmo detainee suit
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that it has no jurisdiction to rule on a former Guantánamo Bay detainee’s lawsuit for damages.
Watching the Shadows
US court upholds conviction of ex-Gitmo detainee
The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of ex-Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa.
North Africa
Libya indicts Qaddafi aides for crimes in 2011 war
About 30 aides to Moammar Qaddafi, including his son Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, were indicted by a Libyan court for a list of offenses allegedly committed during the 2011 revolt.
Mexico
Anabel Hernández: Mexico’s new narco order
Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández, facing death threats after outing top officials as cartel collaborators, speaks on the state of the narco wars under the new government.
Mexico
Gulf Cartel’s Guatemalan jefe busted in Chiapas
Mexican federal police announced the apprehension of a fugitive Gulf Cartel kingpin, Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano AKA “Guayo”—wanted in Guatemala for a bloody attack on police.