Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced the construction of 70 miles of fence along Israel's border with Egypt in order to combat terrorism and illegal immigration. In explaining the purpose for...
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The details surrounding the deaths of several individuals inside US immigration detention centers were intentionally concealed, the New York Times (NYT) reported Saturday. The NYT, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , gathered information through...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Library of Congress on behalf Col. Morris Davis , the former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo...
Afghan officials on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to delineate the process through which Afghanistan will take over the US military's Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base [official website; JURIST news...
A naturalized American citizen pleaded not guilty on Saturday in federal court in New York City to charges of conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country and of receiving military training from al Qaeda. Adis Mendunjanin was indicted...
A three judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Friday upheld the constitutionality of provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act ,...
The Chinese Embassy in Switzerland on Friday warned that Switzerland would jeopardize relations with China by accepting two Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees . Switzerland has already agreed to accept an Uzbek Guantanamo detainee,...
A plea of not guilty was entered in a US federal court Friday for Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, indicted on six counts for allegedly attempting to set off an explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253...
The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland ruled Friday that the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) violated the law in February 2009 when it ordered UBS to disclose information...
The Portuguese Parliament on Friday approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage . The bill gives same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual married couples, but stops short of allowing same-sex couples to...
