Five former US secretaries of state Thursday called for the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay at a conference held at the University of Georgia School of Law to discuss foreign policy issues. Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, Henry Kissinger, Warren Christopher, and James Baker III also agreed that the next president "should be [...]

The Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled Thursday that bail is not a constitutional right, but also found that holding a person in police custody for more than 48 hours without charge is a violation of human rights. The finding overturns sections of several Ugandan laws, including the Trial and Indictment Act, the Uganda People's Defence [...]

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri signed an executive order Thursday that will require state agencies and companies to verify the legal status of their employees when they do business with the state, and will allow state police, prison and parole officials more flexibility in finding and deporting illegal immigrants. During a news conference, Carcieri argued [...]

Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists who drew the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide protests in 2005, plans to sue the author of an anti-Islam film for copyright infringement, Westergaard said Friday. Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders reproduced Westergaard's cartoon in a controversial anti-Islam film titled "Fitna." The film has not [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by holding the men – all cleared for release – in complete isolation in the supermax-style [...]

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, March 27, 2008. Read the full text of the speech. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US v. Anibal Acevedo Velo et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, March 24, 2008 . Read the full text of the indictment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A magistrate in Zimbabwe on Thursday handed down a six-month suspended jail sentence to the first white farmer convicted for refusing to vacate his farm after it was declared state property under Zimbabwe's farm seizure program . Deon Theron was convicted last Tuesday of unlawfully remaining on his farm, and several other white farmers are [...]

The Belarus KGB Thursday detained at least 16 journalists and searched their homes and offices for materials that allegedly libel Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko . The Belarus Deputy Prosecutor General said that the searches related to an animated Internet cartoon that allegedly insulted Lukashenko and had been broadcast on Belsat TV , a Polish-funded satellite [...]

The UN has raised sufficient funds to cover the first-year costs of an international tribunal with the mandate of investigating and trying suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel said Thursday. Michel said that the UN has so far received a total of $60.3 [...]