Documents regarding autopsies on deceased US-held detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, released to the public by the ACLU on October 24, 2005 pursuant to a FOIA request [indicating that at least 21 detainees have been killed while being held in...

Egyptian police Tuesday clashed with relatives of political prisoners demonstrating outside the country's Interior Ministry. The protesters called for the immediate release of the detainees, mostly Islamists and suspected members of the Gamaa Islamiya and Jihad [Wikipedia...

A Guantanamo detainee on hunger strike has asked for a motion ordering his feeding tube to be removed so that he can starve to death, his lawyers said Tuesday. Kuwaiti Fawzi al-Odah , 28,...

A group of former international political leaders supporting the defense of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein called Tuesday for a UN investigation into last week's kidnapping and murder of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi , a lawyer...

US Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NB) introduced a package of four bills on US immigration policy Tuesday that depart from Bush administration policy. Hagel, a possible contender for the Republican nomination in the...

Britain's House of Lords on Tuesday substantially amended the Blair government's controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill . The bill outlawing incitement to religious hatred was originally proposed last year , and Prime Minister...

In Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Katherine Hayden of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled Monday that the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway could continue to operate five waste...

A senior UN official said Tuesday that reported election results from the October 15 referendum ratifying the Iraqi constitution are correct. Carina Perelli, director of the UN Electoral Assistance Division , called the...

Former Rwandan president Pasteur Bizimungu has asked that country's high court to overturn his 15-year criminal sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with criminals. On appeal, Bizimungu argues he was tried on charges different...

A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Tuesday warned that corporate directors may face US government regulation of executive pay unless they control soaring salaries and payoffs. Judge William Chandler , who ruled in...