China's new Law on Public Security Administrative Penalties took effect Wednesday, creating 165 new offenses and setting maximum penalties ranging from 200 yuan ($25 US) to 15 days detention for Chinese citizens all the...
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For the first time since the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals convened in August 2004, a presiding military judge has said that he will examine potential evidence to determine if it was obtained through torture before ruling on admissibility....
The six men convicted in October 2004 of committing sexual abuse against women and underage girls on the British possession of Pitcairn Island over a period of 30 years have lost their latest appeals. Appearing...
Letter from US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to Senator Arlen Specter, February 28, 2006 [providing responses to several questions at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority," held Monday, February...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in four consolidated cases challenging the Texas congressional redistricting plan approved in 2003 which helped Republicans gain six seats in the US...
A scheduled UN General Assembly vote on a draft resolution to create a new UN Human Rights Council has been delayed after the US rejected the proposal . US Ambassador to the...
Canadian Federal Court judge Marshall Rothstein was formally appointed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Wednesday two days after appearing before a committee of Canadian parliamentarians in the first public questioning...
Afghan authorities on Wednesday regained control of the Policharki prison after four days of rioting that was allegedly started by al Qaeda and Taliban convicts. Deputy Justice Minister Mohammed Qasim Hashimzai reported that...
Within hours of the court-appointed deadline, leaders of the flight attendants union have reached a tentative settlement with bankrupt Northwest Airlines (NWA) , after the two sides spent over 24 straight hours at the negotiating table...
Ranking US Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Patrick Leahy rapped Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday after Gonzales sent a letter to Judiciary Committee members purporting to offer clarifications of his testimony last month on the...
