Guatemala halts war crimes trial
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Guatemala's highest court halts the trial of 16 soldiers charged over a massacre during the civil war.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - U.S. military judges dropped all war crimes charges on Monday against the only two Guantanamo captives facing trial, rulings that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners held at the U.S. base in Cuba any time soon.
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A riot at a Guatemala jail ends after four police held there over the murder of three politicians are shot dead.
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A former Guatemalan dictator said a Spanish judge&#039;s order for his arrest was unfounded and insisted that as president he was not aware of any atrocities committed by military officials during the country&#039;s civil war.
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The trial 18 men accused of attempting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea earlier this year has been suspended indefinitely at the request of the prosecution.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - A U.S. war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo came to a screeching halt on Monday when a military judge dropped all the charges against a young Canadian in a ruling that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners any time soon.
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt may face genocide charges related to widespread massacres of Maya Indians at the height of one of Latin America's bloodiest civil wars in the early 1980s.
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Military trials set up to determine the guilt or innocence of enemy combatants imprisoned at a U.S. military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot continue in their current form, a federal judge ruled this afternoon.
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Guatemala's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a politician accused of drug links can be put on trial for involvement in the murder last year of three Salvadoran deputies from a Central American parliament.
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A judge halts an operation that allegedly billed small businesses and nonprofits for "free" trials of Web site services.
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An Italian judge on Monday suspended the first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program until the country's highest court can rule on the case.
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The war crimes trial of the ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic is to resume after a month-long delay.
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A court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution Friday, paving the way for the trial of the former Chilean dictator on human rights charges.
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Genocide charges were dropped against former President Luis Echeverria Saturday when a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had expired, his lawyer said.
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MILAN, Italy -- The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program was suspended by a judge yesterday until the country's highest court rules on an Italian government challenge that the case was built on classified evidence.
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A Mexican judge has temporarily  halted the extradition of six Spaniards arrested a year ago on  suspicion of having links with the Basque separatist group ETA,  their lawyer said on Monday.
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Military trials set up to determine the guilt or innocence of enemy combatants imprisoned at a US military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot continue in their current form, a federal judge ruled this afternoon.