A high-ranking US Army officer testified Wednesday in the court-martial of Sgt. Santos Cardona, the second of two soldiers accused of using unmuzzled dogs to terrify detainees during interrogations at the Abu Ghraib [JURIST news...
A federal jury Wednesday convicted Shahawar Matin Siraj of conspiracy and other charges Wednesday for his role in a failed plot to bomb a New York City subway station in 2004. Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant...
John Doe I et al. v. Alberto Gonzales et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 24, 2006 [remanding a case involving a permanent government ban on speech when an individual receives a National Security Letter...
Human Rights in Iraq, 1 March-30 April 2006, United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, May 23, 2006 . Read the full text...
US Marines involved in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Hadithah last November will face charges and possible courts-martial, according to US Marine Corps Gen. Michael W. Hagee , who said on Wednesday that a criminal investigation...
Former US President Jimmy Carter told a conference of human rights leaders at the The Carter Center in Atlanta Wednesday that immigration was a human rights issue and that he backed the Comprehensive Immigration...
A magistrate in Sierra Leone Wednesday granted bail of $8,000 each to three men charged with inspecting a prohibited area and conspiracy to assist former Liberian president Charles Taylor escape from prison at the...
Three Egyptian journalists and a lawyer have been charged with slandering a local election commission chief by alleging fraud in Egypt's November parliamentary election and publishing the names of two judges accused of rigging results in a runoff poll...
Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) have announced a $400 million settlement with the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae ....
A lawyer for the government of Sudan urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the...