Council of Europe (COE) Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg on Tuesday sent a letter to all member states urging them to welcome certain released Guantanamo Bay detainees. The letter, addressed to all 47 COE member states, called on the states to cooperate with and contribute to US plans to close the detention facility by accepting [...]

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to allegations of involvement in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The plea was delivered during his initial appearance before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Having been held at the Guantanamo facility since 2006, [...]

Jim Arkedis : "With the secretive conviction of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee this week to twelve years' hard labor in a North Korean camp, you might be surprised to learn that North Korea actually has a functioning judiciary system. Though the West has little insight into how it works, we know that [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday night released an order allowing the sale of Chrysler Group assets to Italian automaker Fiat to proceed. The two-page opinion vacates a temporary stay issued on Monday by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the grounds that the petitioners did not meet their burden of showing that a delay is [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts regulation prohibiting prisoners from receiving sexually explicit mail is constitutional. The petitioners challenged the portions of 103 CMR § 481.15 , which regulate the receipt of sexually explicit pictures in the mail and the display of sexually explicit or suggestive images, [...]

The US-led Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq said Tuesday that it is still holding 11,057 Iraqi prisoners in three separate camps throughout the country. The prisoners currently held in the three US camps, Camp Taji, Camp Cropper, and Camp Bucca, will either be released or transferred to Iraqi authorities as the military works to transfer [...]

Opuz v. Turkey, European Court of Human Rights, June 9, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Resolution Impeaching Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, for high crimes and misdemeanors, US House of Representatives, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Kent impeachment

Indiana State Police Pension Trust, et al. v. Chrysler LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Chrysler order

Josselyn, et al. v. Tyree, et al., US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Josselyn v Tyree