California Youth and Adult Corrections Secretary Roderick Hickman said over the weekend that he is resigning his post after a two year attempt to reform California's prison system. Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , Hickman was...
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Inmates at the main US base in Afghanistan are being held in "primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges" according to a Sunday New York Times report . Over 500 terror suspects are held at Bagram Air...
Russian diplomats Saturday criticized the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for its Friday refusal to grant former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic provisional release so that he might travel to Russia...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday he will lobby the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to make blasphemy an internationally-recognized criminal offense in the wake of controversy...
US Federal District Court Judge Jose Linares, presiding over a lawsuit by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to block United Arab Emirates -owned Dubai Ports World from taking over the...
An Afghan court Saturday found Asadullah Sarwari , head of the country's intelligence department in the communist era, guilty of ordering hundreds of murders and sentenced him to death. Sarwari, who defended himself in the one-day trial, is...
The trial of 129 lawmakers, journalists and human rights activists on treason charges opened Friday in Ethiopia. The charges relate to mass demonstrations in the wake of Ethiopias May 2005 elections; the 129 defendants were arrested after...
The US Department of Justice insisted in a court filing Friday that the information the search engine data government is seeking from Google as part of its effort to revive the Child Online Protection Act would...
The Utah Supreme Court Friday ruled to remove a polygamist judge from the bench, explaining that Hildale Justice Court Judge Walter Steed clearly broke the law by being married to three women at once. Steed worked as...
Police in Manila Saturday raided the offices of the Manila Daily Tribune and detained several high-profile critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines a day after she declared a...
