A military judge ruled that the trials for two Navy SEALs accused in the assault of an Iraqi prisoner will be held on a US military base in Iraq in order for the victim to be questioned.
A member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family was found innocent of the torture and rape of an Afghan national in a case that was an international embarrassment for the United Arab Emirates.
Iran’s Prosecutor General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei called for sedition trials against leaders of the protests following last June’s contested presidential election.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Egypt “to close Israel’s southern border to infiltrators and terrorists.”
Col. Morris Davis, ex-prosecutor for the Gitmo military commissions, is suing the Library of Congress, charging he was terminated due to his public stance against the commissions.
More than a thousand African immigrants were put aboard buses and trains in southern Italy and shipped out to detention centers, following an outbreak of violence in the town of Rosarno.
The Nigerian army confirmed that a Chevron pipeline had been sabotaged, leading to the shutdown of 20,000 barrels a day in the Niger Delta.
The Chinese Embassy in Switzerland warned that the Swiss government would jeopardize relations with China by accepting two Uighur Guantánamo Bay detainees.
The details surrounding the deaths of several individuals inside US immigration detention centers were intentionally concealed, the New York Times reports—despite Obama pledges of openness.
Afghan officials signed an agreement to take over the US military’s controversial Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base.
Severed heads and mutilated bodies with threatening “narco-massages” were found in Juárez and Los Mochis, as a shoot-out left one soldier and three narco-gunmen dead in Michoacán.
Israel is conducting tests of a short-range missile-defense system to fend off rockets from the Gaza Strip, dubbed the “Iron Dome,” and says the system is nearly ready to be deployed.
