On 14 December 2003, an attempt was made to murder the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.  The attackers had placed explosives under a bridge. The bomb was meant to explode on the passage of Musharraf’s car, however, the bomb could not be activated on time and the explosion did not take its victim. Pakistani military tribunals tried nearly two dozen people (Army members, Air force members and civilians) in separate trials. Mushtaq Ahmed, a civilian, was sentenced to death after having been denied basic due process rights.

Andy Worthington laments how a politicized appeals court in the US has destroyed all notion of justice at Guantanamo.

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday released a partially redacted opinion ordering the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif for lack of evidence.

Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an arrest warrant Thursday for three US troops suspected of gunning down Spanish journalist Juse Couso [news archive] in Iraq.

Eight men deemed to be a threat to national security can be deported, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The Algerian prosecutor's office said Monday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Aziz Abdul Naji had been indicted, but did not specify the charges.