Hicks boycotts hearing
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AUSTRALIAN David Hicks - charged by the US with war crimes and held in Guantanamo Bay - boycotted a review hearing meant to evaluate his legal status today after his lawyers were prohibited from attending the proceedings.
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The media and public will be barred from witnessing the testimony of Iraqis in a hearing for U.S. Army soldiers accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager, an Army commander has ruled.
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President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from former White House aides Sara Taylor and Harriet Miers.
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The judge in the court martial of three UK soldiers accused of abuse urges an end to public statements.
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A Hong Kong rights group has boycotted a meeting with a visiting British official, accusing London of failing to speak up in support of pro-democracy politicians in the territory.
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A preliminary hearing for polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was postponed Monday at the request of one of his newly hired lawyers.
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A Methodist minister being tried by her church for announcing last year that she lived with a lesbian partner faced a setback when the presiding judge excluded expert testimony from six defense witnesses who believe the church's gay ban violates its own legal principles.
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Former White House aide Sara M. Taylor will refuse to testify today about matters President Bush has deemed shielded by executive privilege, but she will offer to respond to other questions from senators that do not breach White House confidentiality, her attorney said yesterday.
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A US military judge denied a request to call US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to testify in an abuse case against former Abu Ghraib prison guards.
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The U.S. boycotted a conference on victims of terrorism Thursday after a group that has exposed abuses of civilians in Chechnya was not allowed to participate.
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A divided congressional panel moved toward bringing contempt charges against former White House counsel Harriet Miers on Thursday after she refused to appear at a hearing on the firing of federal prosecutors.
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David Hicks, centre, faces the US military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay yesterday. His father Terry and stepmother Bev are seated at far left.
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The International Cricket Council yesterday abandoned a hearing into allegations of racism in Zimbabwe cricket after a bitter row between the two warring parties over court procedure.
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A Saudi judge has postponed a hearing for three reform activists after a rare display of public protest in the kingdom by spectators in the courtroom.
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A federal judge on Monday dealt a  major setback to the Bush administration by halting as unlawful  the military tribunal trial of a Guantanamo prisoner accused of  being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and driver.
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A US judge&#39;s decision to halt the trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of being Osama bin Laden&#39;s driver may delay the case of Australian terrorist suspect David Hicks, lawyers for Hicks said.
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Andy Pettitteâs recusal came amid growing indications that he had given evidence against Roger Clemens in his deposition. Chuck Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski will also not testify.