The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is facing allegations of racketeering, fraud, and illegal spying after an Oregon woman on Friday added claims to an existing lawsuit against the RIAA, several recording companies, and data investigation company MediaSentry for tactics the entities used as part of an RIAA anti-piracy campaign. The woman, Tonya Anderson, [...]

The Chinese government on Sunday blocked Internet users in the country from accessing the video-sharing website YouTube after videos of a recent government crackdown on Tibetan protesters challenging Chinese rule were posted on the site. The protests over degradation of Tibetan culture and a flood of new Chinese immigrants into the region escalated into violence [...]

Prosecutors in Venezuela have ordered former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi to appear in court in connection with the killings of nine leftist students in the western Venezuelan town of Yumare in 1986. The Venezuelan prosecutor's office stated that Lusinchi was summoned for "presumably being linked to the act", according to AP. The killings were described [...]

Judge Thelton Henderson of the US District Court for the Northern District of California told the Sacramento Bee Saturday he was "hopeful" that a court battle between the state of California and inmate advocacy groups over state prison conditions could be resolved before trial. Henderson is a member of a panel of three federal judges [...]

The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the online community craigslist is not liable for third-party postings to its website which attempt to discriminate against people seeking housing. The plaintiffs in the case, the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. (CLCCRUL) had alleged that some postings on craigslist violated [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the new Pakistani parliament should prosecute Pervez Musharraf for crimes committed against the constitution and people of Pakistan, and resist any pressure to pardon him directly or indirectly by law or by promise of safe passage into exile, perhaps in the United [...]

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that a bid by the country's top prosecutor to disband his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and to bar him and President Abdullah Gul from political office was a "step against the national will." Chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya petitioned the Constitutional Court of Turkey on Friday [...]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that an alleged top al-Qaeda operative has been transferred from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay. Muhammad Rahim, a former messenger for Osama bin Laden said to have helped the terrorist leader escape from Afghanistan in 2001, was captured by local authorities in Pakistan last summer and turned [...]

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey told an audience in London Friday that he hopes those accused in the 9/11 attacks do not receive the death penalty if found guilty because it would make them martyrs. Mukasey made the comment in response to a question after a speech at the London School of Economics on Anglo-American [...]

Hundreds of Serbs took control of a UN courthouse in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica Friday in an apparent protest against Kosovo's recent declaration of independence from Serbia. The group initially demanded a deal with UN authorities, but it was not immediately clear what the details of those demands were. The regional UN representative [...]