Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur Dick Marty on Friday called on European countries to show accountability for their role in assisting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in using secret prisons . The statement follows reports that the CIA held high value terrorists in a secret prison in Lithuania. Marty called for [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted lawyers for another Guantanamo Bay detainee permission to question Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks , in a ruling made public Thursday. Attorneys for Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani will be allowed to submit narrow, written questions [...]

The Supreme Court of Honduras said Saturday that if ousted president Manuel Zelaya returns to the country, he will stand trial for treason and abuse of power. There are also reports that the interim government has confined Venezuelan and Argentinian diplomats to their embassies and is threatening their expulsion from Honduras. Also Saturday, the Inter-American [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in an opinion unsealed Friday that the US lacks enough evidence to justify the continued detention of Yemeni national Mohammed al-Adahi, granting al-Adahi's petition for habeas corpus . The government argued that al-Adahi, who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, [...]

Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison Friday for helping a client avoid paying over $7.2 million dollars in taxes. Birkenfeld admitted to helping a California real-estate developer hide $200 million to avoid paying taxes and has cooperated with the government in its investigation of employees of Swiss banks that [...]

The Communist Party of China (CPC) revoked the membership of the former vice-president of the Supreme People's Court on Friday, following a graft and corruption investigation. Huang Songyou, who was originally appointed to the Supreme People's Court in 2002, allegedly took bribes to influence cases and used the profits to live a "corrupt life" . [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that Yahoo is not required to pay royalties for songs played over Internet radio. Several recording companies, all owned by Sony Corp, originally sued in 2001, claiming that Yahoo's online radio service, LAUNCHcast, was interactive, requiring the payment of royalty fees, because it allowed [...]

Al-Adahi, et al. v. Obama, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, August 21, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on habeas corpus motions filed on behalf of Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Arista Records, Inc. v. Launch Media, Inc., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, August 21, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Clare Algar : "It is really extraordinary that the British government is relying on the Data Protection Act to avoid disclosing the identities of those in whose renditions it was complicit. Imagine, if you will, a kidnapper who admits to a kidnap but refuses to identify the victim of the kidnap. The position is ludicrous. [...]