Anne Weismann "In CREW v. Office of Administration, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an opinion on June 16, 2008, dismissing CREW's complaint on the ground that the Office of Administration (OA), a component of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), is not an agency and therefore not subject to the Freedom of [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Friday refused to move the trial of suspected war criminal Ildephonse Hategekimana to the Rwandan domestic courts. The request had been made by the prosecutor's office and the Rwandan government, but was objected to by Hategekimana's defense and human rights groups filing amicus briefs on his behalf. According to [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Friday dismissed a petition brought by US terrorism detainee Omar Khadr , who sought review of his unlawful enemy combatant classification. The court agreed with the arguments of US Department of Justice lawyers and held that it did not have jurisdiction to [...]

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan testified Friday that he was unaware of any criminal wrongdoing by administration officials who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame . Appearing before the US House Judiciary Committee , McClellan said that he was unaware of any attempts by administration officials to cover up the leak, [...]

China has released more than 1,000 protesters detained by authorities during March demonstrations in Tibet Friday, according to comments attributed to a Chinese official by state press agency Xinhua. Speaking at a press conference on the Olympic Flame's visit to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, Chinese official Palma Trily said that 1,157 people detained in March [...]

The US House of Representatives Friday passed a compromise version of a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and including a controversial provision granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the NSA warrantless surveillance program . The bill also grants the FISA court authority to review a wider range of wiretapping [...]

The European Council agreed at a Friday meeting of government leaders in Brussels to reconvene in October to discuss the future of the Treaty of Lisbon . Last week, Irish voters rejected the Treaty with 53.4 percent voting against it, raising serious concerns that the Treaty, which sets out guidelines for EU reform, will fail [...]

The Court of Appeal of Quebec ruled Thursday that a national law which regulates the use of human embryos and bans human cloning encroaches upon provincial authority. The court held that regulatory provisions included in the Assisted Human Reproduction Act fell within provincial authority to generally regulate health and medical research and were beyond the [...]

European nations are among the worst violators of refugee rights because of the countries' strict border policies and their treatment of refugee seekers, according to a report released by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) on Thursday. The 60 main refugee host countries were graded based on their adherence to the UN Convention [...]

A German court convicted an Iraqi man for disseminating terrorist materials online in an attempt to recruit members for al-Qaeda on Thursday. The man, Ibrahim Rashid, an Iraqi political refugee of Kurdish descent, was convicted on 22 counts of recruiting for a non-German terrorist organization. He was arrested in 2006 and detained until his trial [...]