The legal problem cited by the judge when he threw out the indictments against Blackwater guards was obvious to American government lawyers within days of the shooting. “It is regrettable that the...
The private contractors are accused of killing 17 unarmed civilians in Baghdad in a 2007 case that sparked an outcry. A judge says using statements from the Americans was a violation of their rights.
"The United States bears a huge responsibility to make reparations to people of Afghanistan and Pakistan after pursuing nearly 10 years of destructive warfare that has destabilized both...
If Elena Kagan replaces John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush might wish for another try at persuading the justices to rule his way on a couple of items.
Plaintiffs will have a harder time suing oil companies and other multinational groups over human-rights abuses overseas following a federal court ruling on Friday.
Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, thenDefense secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress in 2004 that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who...
The United Israel Appeal scrapped a plan to showcase former President George W. Bush at a Feb. 12 gala in Geneva amid reports that human rights groups were poised to protest and file a torture...
CCR President Michael Ratner participates in panel examining the cultural and political legacy of the al-Qaida attacks and the US response in the decade since.
Eight years after the release of shocking photographs depicting detainee abuse in Iraq's famed Abu Ghraib prison, a federal appeals court in Virginia is grappling with whether former Iraqi prisoners...
