The American Bar Association (ABA) Friday criticized a US Department of Justice proposal that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees should be subject to tightened restrictions , including limited access to...
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A parliamentary vote on the only candidate running to be the next president of Turkey ran into a legal challenge Friday after Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul , a member of the ruling...
A spokesman for the Cambodian Bar Association (BAKC) said Saturday that the group would dramatically reduce the fees it proposed to levy on foreign lawyers taking part in the upcoming Khmer Rouge genocide trials before the...
Death Penalty Statistics 2006, Amnesty International, April 27, 2007 . Read the full statistical report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that a top al Qaeda operative has been tranferred to Guantanamo Bay by the CIA. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi , an Iraqi citizen who is...
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D) introduced a bill Friday to legalize gay marriage in New York. In a press release, Spitzer said :Under current law, partners unable to enter into a civil marriage - and their...
Former Canadian advertising executive Jean LaFleur plead guilty Friday to 28 counts of fraud for his alleged role in the federal sponsorship scandal . Lafleur is accused of billing the Canadian federal government for work...
US Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Thursday introduced a bill to restrict gun sales to terror suspects. S. 1237 would give the US attorney general the power and discretion to block gun sales to people listed...
The office of the German Federal Prosecutor Friday declined to investigate a war crimes claim against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking US...
A UK special court ruled on Friday that two Libyan men suspected of involvement in terrorist activities could not be deported to Libya , overriding an agreement between the two governments. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission ...
