US Supreme Court to hear foreigner rights, workmen's compensation cases
In addition to considering the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case involving Guantanamo tribunals , the US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three other cases. In Bustillo v. Johnson, the Court will consider...
Blair urges MPs to keep 90-day detention limit despite calls for compromise
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair urged British members of Parliament Monday "not to compromise with the nation's security" by reducing a proposed legislative 90-day time limit for detaining terror suspects without charge recommended by London's...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked France's ban on the hijab in public schools to the country's recent rioting , in an interview Monday with the Turkish newspaper Milliyet [media...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...
Blair set to compromise on detention provision in anti-terror bill
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has reportedly decided to compromise on a provision of the government's proposed anti-terror bill that allows police to detain a suspect for up to 90 days without...
More than 250 people were arrested Friday night in France as rioting spread from the poor suburbs of Paris into the cities of Strasbourg and Rennes. The riots, which began late last week, originated in Parisian ghettos, where jobless...
A military jury Friday cleared a US Army sergeant of all charges related to his alleged abuse of a prisoner at the US-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan . Sgt. Duane Grubb had been charged...
Federal appeals court nullifies CA law criminalizing false statements against police
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday to strike down a California law making it a criminal offense for individuals to knowingly make false accusations against police officers. The law, which...
An all-male jury of four officers and four enlisted personnel has been selected in the trial of a US Army reservist accused of attacking a detainee at an Afghanistan detention center and then lying about his actions, Fort Bliss...
Denver voters decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana
Denver voters have approved a measure that makes it the first large American city to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The measure, which passed with 54 percent of the vote , allows adults 21 and...
