Cdn. wins right to sue alleged Saudi torturers
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After spending almost three years in a Saudi Arabian prison and another eight months in British courts, Canadian William Sampson has won the right to sue his Saudi captors.
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Four former British detainees of the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp for accused terrorists filed a law suit seeking damages from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top officials for torture and abuse, their lawyers announced.
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Human rights groups have filed a lawsuit in France alleging that former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld allowed torture at U.S.-run detention centers in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Held for 'purposes of interrogation' The Saudi authorities have confirmed they are holding an "outspoken" blogger for "purposes of interrogation", the New York Times reports.â¦
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A human rights group said Thursday that Saudi Arabia violated international law when it ordered the beheadings earlier this week of four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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Four Britons, who claim they were repeatedly tortured at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday began suing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other US military leaders for Â£6 million (US$11 million) each in compensation.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 12 -- Israel's high court ruled Tuesday that Palestinians have the right to sue the Israeli military for damages caused by some of its operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, overturning parts of a law that had given the security forces broad immunity to such claims.
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that four former Guantanamo prisoners, all British citizens, have no right to sue top Pentagon officials and military officers for torture, abuse and violations of their religious rights.
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An Indian doctor briefly accused of links to a UK terror attack wins a court battle to regain his Australian work visa.
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A federal prosecutor made a comment suggesting that a Virginia man held in a Saudi Arabian prison had been tortured.
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Evidence obtained by other governments through torture could be used to detain terrorist suspects indefinitely in Britain, the Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.
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LONDON, Feb. 26 -- A British court ruled Monday that Abu Qatada, a radical Islamic cleric believed to have close links to al-Qaeda, faces no risk of abuse if sent to Jordan, opening the way for his deportation.
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The World Trade Organization&#39;s top court handed Canadian wheat farmers another victory yesterday in their fight against US charges they are unfair traders.
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antor Fitzgerald, the brokerage firm that lost 658 employees in the Sept. 11 attack, has sued Saudi Arabia, charging that the kingdom &quot;provided funding and material support and substantial assistance&quot; to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
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An American jailed in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of terrorist ties may have a right to challenge his detention in an American court if evidence shows he was arrested at the behest of the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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The parents of a 17-year-old slain by Hamas terrorists in Israel were awarded $156 million Wednesday in what plaintiffs called a precedent-setting, historic victory for terrorism victims and a blow to US-based Islamic groups that fund terror overseas.