The top UN investigator in Afghanistan, M. Cherif Bassiouni , has been released from his post following his issuance Thursday of a report to the UN Commission on Human Rights heavily critical of US-led...
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The US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Sunday that prison incarceration rates for 2003 - 2004 hit an all-time high, with nearly 2.3 percent of the population being jailed for some length of time....
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, April 25.The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first, Halbert...
Francois Roux, a French lawyer advising Aicha El Wafi, the mother of indicted US terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen who earlier this week pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy stemming from the September 11th terrorist attacks,...
Senate majority leader Bill Frist, in a taped statement to be aired Sunday evening, urged conservatives to recognize that judges "deserve respect, not retaliation no matter how they rule," and defended his actions to stop Democrats...
Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...
Pope Benedict XVI was officially installed as the 265th head of the Catholic Church on Sunday, receiving the symbolic pallium and the Ring of the Fisherman , and celebrating...
Syria, listed by the US since 1979 as a state sponsor of terrorism, has signed on to a UN treaty designed to block funding of terrorist activities, according to a UN official speaking Sunday. Syria becomes the...
Four current leaders and a former European Commission president have this weekend urged French voters to adopt the new European constitution in a May 29 referendum, warning that rejection could have dire...
Days after being removed from power by Congress, Ecuador's former president Lucio Gutierrez fled the country aboard a Brazilian air force plane on Sunday. Brazil granted Gutierrez political asylum Thursday; new Ecuadorian...
