Court rules Canadian Sampson, 3 British men can sue men they say tortured them
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LONDON (CP) - Bill Sampson achieved a major legal victory Thursday in his bid to hold the men he says tortured him in a Saudi prison accountable for the beatings that made him falsely confess to murder.
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Nine Law Lords ruled in favour of a group of men jailed without charge for up to three years. The British government had argued that the detention without trial of some terrorist suspects is a tough but necessary
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Four Britons who claim they were tortured in jails in Saudi Arabia won the right to pursue their case in Britain's courts.
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Detaining foreign terrorism suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK&#39;s highest court has ruled. In a blow to the government&#39;s anti-terror measures, the House of Lords law lords ruled by an eight
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A man who intentionally spat at another can be charged with criminal assault, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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A Canadian who was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan and a Yemeni accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden confront terrorism charges Monday under a reconfigured military tribunal system that critics say remains unconstitutional.
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Four British men filed a lawsuit against the United States Wednesday -- alleging they were abused while imprisoned at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Britain's highest court ruled Thursday that the British government cannot indefinitely detain foreigners suspected of terrorism without charging or trying them, and it called the process a violation of European ...
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The Bush administration asserted in federal court yesterday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and three former military officials cannot be held liable for the alleged torture of nine Afghans and Iraqis in U.S. military detention camps because the detainees have no standing to sue in U.S....
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A British terror suspect held captive in Guantanamo Bay for 33 months is to sue to government, it is reported.
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An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that reverberates on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.
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A former detainee is allowed to keep former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and others in a lawsuit that claims prisoners were mistreated and subject to ethnic and religious discrimination after Sept. 11, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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A U.S. military appeals court on Monday reinstated terrorism charges against a Canadian prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for more than five years.
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Charges are considered against three men in connection with the abuse of Dana Fowley and another victim.
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LONDON - Britain&#39;s highest court knocked out one of the key planks of the nation&#39;s anti-terrorism law Thursday, ruling that the government can&#39;t detain foreign suspects indefinitely without bringing them to trial.
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OSNABRUECK, Germany  - Three British soldiers  pleaded not guilty at a court martial on Tuesday to abusing and  sexually humiliating Iraqi civilians in May 2003, although one  admitted he had beaten a detained man.
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An Algerian airline pilot wrongly accused of training the September 11, 2001 hijackers should be allowed to claim compensation, a British court ruled Thursday.