Law & Society

Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed Fahmy, local Baher Mohamed, are currently being held by the Egyptian government on charges regarding their relations or involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ahmed Muhammed Haza al Darbi, a detainee of the Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba, admitted to playing a major role in the Al Qaeda attack on French oil tanker Limburg in 2002, the New York Times said in a report.

Lake Forest, Illinois-based pharmaceutical firm Hospira Inc claimed in a statement that the company will not be able to guarantee that a US prison will not be able to obtain its drugs to be used for capital punishment despite the fact that it is objecting to its use, a report by The Associated Press said.