The US Supreme Court granted a motion by the government to dismiss as moot an appeal challenging the indefinite detention of suspected al-Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
Afghanistan’s human rights progress has been thwarted by armed conflict, censorship, abuse of power, and violence against women, the UN Human Rights Council charges in a new report.
The CIA submitted a classified document to The Hague listing former Serbian intelligence chief Jovica Stanisic’s collaboration with the US spy agency’s intelligence activities in the ex-Yugoslavia.
Leon Panetta, in his first interview as CIA director, told reporters that President Obama will “continue a very aggressive effort to go after terrorists”—implying a widening of drone strikes in Pakistan.
The CIA has destroyed 92 tapes of interrogations of “terror” suspects, far more than previously acknowledged, government lawyers said in a letter filed as part of an ACLU lawsuit.
Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for creation of a truth commission to investigate the national security policies of the Bush administration.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide.
An EU court for Kosova reached its first verdict, sentencing ethnic Albanian Gani Gashi to 17 years for guilty of crimes committed during the Kosovo-Serbian conflict in 1998-1999.
Bosnia war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in a hearing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Arguments began in the new trial of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused of embezzling and laundering nearly $20 billion from Yukos Oil.
The Argentinian government harshly condemned Leon Panetta, the new CIA director, for warning of an economic crisis in the country, calling it an “unacceptable interference” in its affairs.
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez ordered the army to seize control of all rice processing plants in the country, citing the companies’ failure to adhere to price control regulations.
