Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that UN human rights envoy Yash Ghai should be removed from his position as special envoy after Ghai publicly criticized Cambodia's intolerance to dissent . The comments come one...
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Afghanistan's parliament on Wednesday demanded that government officials block Abdul Rahman , the Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, from seeking asylum in another country. Parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni...
Fugitive war crimes indictee Charles Taylor , who disappeared from his villa in the south of Nigeria where he had been living in exile since 2003, has been recaptured, according to a Nigerian police spokesman....
Five federal judges experienced with surveillance requests appeared Tuesday before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in support of committee chairman Arlen Specter's proposal to require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret panel established by...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Tuesday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) has dropped its appeal of a September District Court order requiring it to publicly release...
Court-appointed lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui rested the case of their headstrong and sometimes fractious client in federal court Tuesday by reading recorded statements from five al Qaeda leaders to show that contrary to Moussaoui's own testimony...
The Miami federal judge presiding over the trial of terror suspect Jose Padilla Tuesday placed tight restrictions on disclosure of evidence containing classified material. US District Judge Marcia Cooke's order under the Classified Information Procedures Act...
A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) violated s. 2511 of US Code Title 18 by disclosing an illegally obtained...
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Saundra Armstrong of the US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the US Bureau of Reclamation must leave more water in the Klamath River...
Most of the eight US Supreme Court justices hearing oral arguments Tuesday in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld appeared skeptical of the Bush administration's contention that special military tribunals established by the President [Military...
