A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a lawsuit brought against private contractors by Iraqi plaintiffs alleging torture at the Abu Ghraib prison . The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official...
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The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant a request by the state of California to temporarily stay a lower court order to come up with a plan to reduce the number of inmates in its...
Belgian school officials announced Friday that Muslim headscarves will be banned in about 700 schools in the Dutch-speaking northern region of Flanders. The move came after an administrative tribunal ruled Tuesday that individual schools could not...
Military lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and alleged 9/11 co-conspirator Ramzi bin al-Shibh on Wednesday asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare the Military Commissions...
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced Friday that the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has referred allegations of torture by its officers to Attorney General Patricia Scotland and the Metropolitan Police [official...
US Department of Defense (DOD) general counsel Jeh Johnson said Thursday that the Obama administration remains committed to closing the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by early next year. Speaking before...
Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was found guilty Friday on corruption charges and sentenced to life in prison. Chen's wife Wu Shu-Chen was also given a life sentence after the pair were...
Saleh, et al. v. Titan Corporation, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 11, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper...
Schwarzenegger, et al. v. Coleman, et al., US Supreme Court, September 11, 2009 ....
The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Thursday invalidated ballots from last month's presidential election from certain polls in Kandahar, Ghazni, and Paktika provinces. The ECC found "clear and convincing evidence of fraud" at...
