A federal magistrate has ordered the Bush administration to stop blocking a private attorney from meeting with Salim Muhood Adem, one of the 490 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay . Adem, a Sudanese national arrested in...

The Supreme Court of Nepal has upheld an ordinance issued by King Gyanendra that permits detention of suspected terrorists without charge or trial for up to a year. A 2-1 majority of a...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) responded Friday to Democratic questions and Republican questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee regarding the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program,...

Riot police and demonstrators clashed Saturday in the Belarus capital city of Minsk as thousands of citizens gathered again to protest alleged election fraud in last Sunday's presidential elections in which current President Alexander...

The Nigerian government said Saturday that it would allow the transfer of ex-Liberia president and fugitive war crimes indictee Charles Taylor to Liberian authorities. According to a statement: "President Olusegun Obasanjo has today, 25 March, informed...

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued an order late Friday quashing a subpoena that had been issued for Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla Martin in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news...

US Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed US District Judge and former Whitewater prosecutor John D. Bates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to replace US District Judge James Robertson ,...

The US Supreme Court said Friday that it will rehear oral arguments for death penalty case Kansas v. Marsh so that Justice Samuel Alito can break...

The Hong Kong Law Reform Commission (HKLRC) on Friday released its proposals to embed greater safeguards in the executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen [official...

Abortion rights activists in South Dakota on Friday announced that they will seek a referendum that will overturn the state's newly-enacted abortion ban . The campaign , led by the South Dakota...