The United States is making plans to try prisoners held at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by military tribunal. All of the potential charges carry a possible death sentence. In violation of ...

This week's surge in the dispute over military tribunals reflects American strength. US President George W. Bush has announced that he will use tribunals to deal with suspected terrorists. The plan ...

US plans to trial foreign terrorist suspects in military tribunals could make it difficult to extradite the defendants from Europe as the hearings could be seen as violations of the 1950 European ...

Under tribunal rules the guilt or innocence of those on trial is determined on the basis of a two-thirds majority vote by a panel of military officers. There is no civil court appeal and evidence like ...

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Washington that the Bush administration has been criticizing the international war crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda — even as the Yugoslavia tribunal tries ...

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A US tribunal began picking over the bitter spat between media magnate Rupert Murdoch and his children Monday in a case that could determine the fate of his empire, including the influential ...

Ukrainian officials traveled to the United States last week to push for support for the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute top-level Russian officials for the crime of aggression. Although ...

A journalist is taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police after it refused to release correspondence with the US about three WikiLeaks journalists under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...