Amidst discussions among members of the Bush administration on closing the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay , officials are considering providing detainees expanded court access and transferring them to federal custody in the United States, the New...
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An Egyptian court sentenced two police officers to three years in prison Monday for torturing a bus driver after video clips of the incident circulated on video-sharing website YouTube . Islam Nabih, a police...
Pakistani riot police and security forces fired tear gas at dark-suited lawyers and law students assembled at the High Court in Lahore Monday and charged them with batons as some 2000 demonstrated against President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday...
A top official with the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) said Sunday that an unsuccessful bid by a French charity to fly 103 children out of Chad late last month violated international law....
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) said Sunday that he will support the nomination of former federal judge Michael Mukasey as US attorney general. Mukasey's nomination has come under fire over...
Chadian authorities Sunday freed seven Europeans - three French journalists and four Spanish flight attendants - held in connection with a French charity's attempted airlift from Chad of 103 children alleged to be Darfur orphans. French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Pakistani police and security services detained hundreds of lawyers, rights activists and opposition figures Saturday and Sunday in a clampdown following President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday proclamation of emergency rule . Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Sunday that up...
New Pakistan Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar Sunday effectively set aside dismissed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's last-ditch attempt to block President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday emergency declaration and Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) , saying that the Supreme Court...
Order, Supreme Court of Pakistan, November 3, 2007 [order by an 8-member Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry declaring invalid President Pervez Musharraf's Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and directing civic and military officials not to take...
Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 (PCO), Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf, November 3, 2007 [suspending certain fundamental rights under a declaration of emergency and providing that "the Supreme Court or a High Court and any other...
