An official of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has confirmed that Iraqi authorities executed 13 insurgents by hanging Thursday in Baghdad, the first official executions of insurgents carried out in the country since the restoration of the death penalty [JURIST...
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President Bush has signed legislation to renew the USA PATRIOT Act , making permanent several sunsetting provisions in the anti-terror law, extending two provisions until 2009, and incorporating a number of new rights...
Recently released documents reveal that former Associate Deputy Attorney General David S. Kris expressed reservations about the Bush administration's legal rationale for its warrantless domestic surveillance program . In an e-mail to an...
CNN is reporting that US Sen. John Warner (R-VA) has said that Dubai Ports World has decided to transfer operation of six major US ports to a US entity. DP World, a government-owned company from...
Human Rights Record of the US in 2004, China State Council, March 8, 2006. Read the full report as reprinted in the Chinese government's People's Daily. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
The ACLU of Northern California has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Northern California on behalf of Pacific News Service, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the California Department of...
Reuters is reporting that the US military will close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and transfer approximately 4,500 prisoners to other facilities in Iraq, according to a military spokesman. The prison, a torture center under the regime...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered over 100 violations of wiretapping and intelligence gathering rules in the past two years, including using wiretaps that exceeded the scope authorized by court warrant and obtaining communications with an...
Google has agreed to pay up to $90M to settle a class action lawsuit filed last year in Arkansas state court, alleging that Google and other online search engine companies overcharged for pay-per-click advertising, in...
Human rights violations remain a problem in the United States, including illegal wiretapping, police abuse, wrongful convictions, and the world's highest ratio of people behind bars, according to a report released Thursday by China. The Human Rights Record of...
