A Swedish legal organization Monday filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights , challenging a controversial warrantless wiretapping law passed by the Swedish parliament last month. The...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Tuesday ruled that racist comments made online by a US Army soldier were protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The court confirmed that...
A committee of the Italian House of Deputies Wednesday approved funding for a national fingerprinting effort to begin in 2010. Italian leaders have pushed to require all Italian citizens and resident foreigners to be fingerprinted...
US President George W. Bush invoked executive privilege Wednesday to prevent members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from obtaining an FBI report on an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney concerning the Valerie...
The UK officially completed its ratification of the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon , by filing approval documents in Rome on Thursday. The Treaty was incorporated into British...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Thursday convicted former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar on additional charges related to his role in the 1991 shelling of Dubrovnik ,...
The French Senate on Wednesday passed a constitutional reform bill which is backed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and which was designed to modernize the constitution and redefine governmental powers. The subject...
The Indonesian Supreme Court Thursday rejected the third appeal made by Mukhlas, Imam Samudra and Amrozi Nurhasyim of their convictions for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . Lawyers for the three said they had...
A military judge has denied a motion to dismiss by Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan , holding that the military commission assigned to his trial has the appropriate jurisdiction to hear the case....
The UK parliament approved legislation Wednesday that would allow the use of testimony from anonymous witnesses at criminal trials. The Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008 was introduced last...
