Newmont seeks release of detained staff in Indonesia
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A unit of US gold miner Newmont Mining Corp will request the release of five employees detained over pollution allegations after an Indonesian government study dismissed the claims, a lawyer said on Tuesday.
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JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--US mining giant Newmont Mining Corp. (NEM) is preparing a legal defense of five executives who face possible criminal charges related to the alleged dumping of toxic wastes by the company&#39;s Indonesian unit, a company executive said.
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Indonesian police will be allowed to interview a militant being held in U.S. custody over his links to the 2002 Bali bombings and other attacks, a police spokesman said on Friday.
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A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to try release suspects detained as enemy combatants and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
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Kidnappers holding two Indonesian women hostages in Iraq are demanding the release of a militant cleric accused of leading a terrorist group in Southeast Asia.
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An Indonesian judge delivered a ruling Thursday in favor of Newmont Mining Corp. and six employees under investigation for polluting a fishing bay, but how the action will affect the government&#39;s case against the men was unclear.
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Arabic-language news channel Al-Jazeera has reported hostage-takers in Iraq are demanding Indonesia&#39;s government release Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir in exchange for two female hostages.
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An Indonesian court said Thursday that the detention earlier this year of five executives of a local unit of the Newmont Mining Corporation was illegal.
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The United States has stepped up its diplomatic response to Indonesia&#39;s arrest of five executives of the American mining company Newmont for alleged pollution in the province of Sulawesi.
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A former U.S. State Department interpreter testified Thursday that one month before the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, the United States urged Indonesia to arrest and send to America the Islamic cleric accused of inspiring his followers to carry out the attack.
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Indonesia urged Washington on Friday to   provide access to a militant linked to the 2002 Bali bombings   after President Bush said he had been transferred to Guantanamo   Bay.
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An Iraqi militant group has asked Indonesia to release Abu Bakar Bashir, a cleric accused of leading the extremist Jemaah Islamiyah group, in exchange for two kidnapped Indonesian hostages, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera television.
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A leading rights watchdog has called on the next Indonesian president to reopen cases of alleged abuse and torture against Acehnese prisoners, saying the military and police were using violence to extract baseless confessions from those accused of having
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JAKARTA (Antara): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered up on Tuesday yet new names of two Indonesian women that were released by Iraqi abductors on Monday.
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MOSCOW -- A prominent human-rights activist in Uzbekistan who worked part-time as a translator for New York-based Human Rights Watch has been detained after fleeing her homeland and then attempting to return, her lawyer said yesterday. Umida Niyazova, 32, an activist with Veritas, an unregistered Uzbek human rights group, was detained near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan on Jan. 22, according ...
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JAKARTA - An Indonesian court said on Thursday the detention of five executives of a local unit of US gold miner Newmont Mining Corp.
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The United States ambassador in Jakarta has visited the Indonesian president to protest at the continued detention of five executives of a Denver, Colorado-based mining company.