The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a racketeering lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation launched in respect of an alleged agreement with retailer Best Buy can proceed, overturning a...
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Rear Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , has said that he supports so-called "habeas visits" of lawyers with detainees at the facility and no longer endorses visit restrictions along the...
An Italian judge Friday rejected government arguments that Italian prosecutors had overstepped their authority in bringing charges against 26 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and two former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Friday appointed a new judge to the nation's Constitutional Court , the second such appointment in two days. Stepan Havrysh and Vasyl Kostytsky will replace two...
Guantanamo Bay detainee Gouled Hassan Dourad has denied accusations of involvement with al-Qaeda, according to a transcript of his April 28 hearing before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) released...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday signed a $7.7 billion bipartisan bill to construct facilities to provide 53,000 new prison and jail beds over the next five years to alleviate California's overcrowded prisons [JURIST news...
Chinese Human Rights Defenders Friday criticized the Chinese government for continuing to persecute and intimidate human rights defenders such as lawyers, academics and journalists in a report issued...
Freedom of the press suffered serious setbacks around the world in 2006, according to a new report from Freedom House . The study, Freedom of the Press 2007: A Global Survey of Media Independence, noted...
Former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified Thursday that seven of eight prosecutors at the center of the US Attorney firing scandal were performing their jobs well before being dismissed, and that the...
The convicted assassin and terrorist known popularly as "Carlos the Jackal" - Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - may soon be forced to stand trial in France for his alleged participation in four...
