Iraq War Crimes Tribunal Flawed -- Rights Group
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Iraq's plan to push ahead with early  trials of Saddam Hussein's deputies risks launching an unfair  process that is flawed and discredited in the eyes of the  world, a leading human rights group said on Friday.
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An independent panel has succeeded where other authorities have failed in placing blame for the inexcusable mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Saddam Hussein's cousin told Iraq's High Tribunal on Monday that it had no right to try him for war crimes because he had the same kind of immunity from prosecution that U.S. forces enjoy in Iraq.
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A laywer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
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Iraq may begin war crimes trials for senior members of Saddam Hussein&#39;s former regime as soon as next week, Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said.
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The "just following orders" defense didn't work for the alleged leader of the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, but lawyers for at least one other soldier facing court-martial in the scandal still intend to use it.
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The group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of detainees in Iraq, even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called attention to the issue in 2004.
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MANNHEIM, GERMANY - A US military tribunal refused to let lawyers question Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and one of his key deputys in the case against an Army reservist charged with abusing inmates at Baghdad&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison.
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An Army officer's acquittal on charges of failing to control soldiers who abused Abu Ghraib prisoners cuts short a trail of accountability that could lead much higher, human rights groups say.
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A Pentagon commission found that top US military commanders bear some responsibility for abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq because they failed to recognize deteriorating performance
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Saddam Hussein's lawyers urged Iraqis on Thursday to reject the former president's genocide trial, accusing the court of bias against him.
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Three British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi civilians had not been fully briefed of how to treat captured looters in an operation which went badly wrong, their court martial heard.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein and six   former commanders on charges of launching a genocidal campaign   against Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s resumed in a   Baghdad courtroom on Tuesday.
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International courts tackling war crimes should focus on the most serious allegations and only allow accused to represent themselves if they can fulfill the role, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
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An Israeli rights group alleged in a report released Monday that Israeli police fail to follow through on the vast majority of Palestinian complaints of violence by Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
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A civil rights group on Thursday  accused the deputy U.S. attorney general of breaking ethical  rules by making public statements that could bias proceedings  against an American held as an enemy combatant.
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Foreign secretary raises doubts about fairness of US military tribunals for 9/11 accused