Documents regarding US treatment of detainees, US Department of Defense, released to the public by the ACLU on June 19, 2006 pursuant to a FOIA request. Read the full text of the documents. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here and...
Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives announced Tuesday that they would postpone final negotiations on immigration reform legislation until after hearings around the country in the coming months. House Speaker Dennis Hastert...
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of Louisiana's new law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. US District Judge James Brady of the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge...
Prisoners across Nepal are demanding general amnesty following the release of more than 1,000 Maoist rebels , many of whom had been detained under a royal government anti-terrorism law effectively scrapped ...
The prosecutor-general of East Timor has issued an arrest warrant for former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato, accused of giving weapons to a rebel group that targeted opponents of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri ....
The Barbados government on Tuesday asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to overturn a legal precedent that blocks capital punishment in an effort to impose the death penalty on two convicted murderers. Jeffrey Joseph...
South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk and five colleagues went on trial Tuesday, with prosecutors calling for harsh punishment and defense lawyers responding that criminal penalties are inappropriate for academic fraud. Prosecutors charged Hwang in...
A federal judge has ordered the Los Angeles County jail system to create an expert panel to oversee reform at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail , one of seven LA country jails that was marred...
David Safavian , former head of procurement for the US government, was convicted Tuesday of four of five felony charges stemming from the scandal surrounding former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff . After five days of deliberations,...
Two UK law enforcement associations denounced parts of the pending Police and Justice Bill on Tuesday and called on the House of Lords to amend it. In a press release , the Association of Chief...