A Russian court has ruled that officials at the Siberian prison holding former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky unfairly punished him in December by reprimanding him for leaving a prison workshop without receiving permission. The...
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Leading Friday's international brief, the newly formed political cabinet in Nepal has agreed on the membership of a judicial commission that will investigate state police and security force actions during pro-democracy protests last month...
The US Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday added a provision to the 2007 defense spending bill which would require the Bush administration to provide "a US government coordinated legal opinion on whether certain specified interrogation techniques...
Serbian police on Thursday arrested three people suspected of helping war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic evade authorities seeking to arrest him and turn him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
Jury members in the Moussaoui sentencing trial recommended a life sentence for convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui because several jurors believed that Moussaoui only played a minor role in the plot...
Al Rawi & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs & Anor, Supreme Court of Judicature Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court, May 4, 2006 [rejecting the petition of a group of British...
Federal Energy Price Protection Act, US House of Representatives, passed May 3, 2006 . Read the full...
US v. Zacarias Moussaoui, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, judgment, May 4, 2006. Read the full text of the judgment form . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
US Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday called on the Belarus government to release opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich , who was jailed last week for attending an illegal demonstration....
Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews introduced two anti-crime bills Thursday in the Canadian Parliament as the new Conservative party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper made good on its January election promises to get tough...
