US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee , told President Bush in a letter Wednesday that the White House violated the National Security Act when it withheld information pertaining...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday appealed to Egyptian authorities in an attempt to prevent the deportation of 654 Sudanese refugees whom Cairo authorities say are in the country illegally. Also Wednesday, US-based rights...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended his annual visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine Wednesday, and condemned Chinese and South Korean leaders who refused to meet with him because he commemorates Japanese veterans from World War...
A federal judge Wednesday rejected the US government's argument that revealing the names of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees violates their privacy, and remanded the case for further consideration on whether to actually release the names....
Order in C.T. Hanft v. Jose Padilla, Supreme Court of the United States, January 4, 2005 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...
US Vice President Dick Cheney offered a forceful defense of the NSA warrantless surveillance program in use since the September 11 terrorist attacks in an address to a Heritage Foundation audience...
With Senate confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito scheduled to begin Monday , more interest groups and other organizations are voicing their views on the nomination. The Alliance for Justice ...
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official, testifying Wednesday before the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights , said that a "very credible" source has informed HRW of a third alleged US detention facility located in a...
AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered that Jose Padilla be transferred from military to civilian custody. Padilla was detained over three years ago for allegedly planning to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb"...
Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday accused Thai security forces of using "harsh or inadaquate counter-measures" in their response to Islamist/separatist terror attacks in the southern provinces of the predominantly-Buddist country. According to AI, the Thai government...