Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui said their client's guilty plea and life prison sentence should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated, according to court papers released Friday. The 207-page brief filed in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit asks that Moussaoui's guilty plea be revoked or that Moussaoui be re-sentenced, saying [...]

Pakistani officials on Friday arrested a fifth suspect for his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . Police described the suspect, Abdul Rasheed, as an important member of the conspiracy behind the December 27 attack. The arrest comes three days before parliamentary elections that were postponed after the assassination. Five [...]

A Zambian High Court Magistrate Friday ruled that former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba must stand trial for allegedly stealing money from the country's treasury while in office from 1991-2001. Chiluba and two Zambian businessmen, Faustin Kabwe and Aaron Chungu, face a total of 12 counts of theft of public funds for their involvement in taking [...]

United States v. Kevin Howard, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, February 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Captured on Tape: Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantanamo, Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, February 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Protests broke out in the Gaza Strip, Pakistan, and Denmark Friday over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . Thousands marched and chanted in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the Gaza strip, while hundreds protested in Pakistan by burning Danish flags and demanding the removal [...]

US President George W. Bush Friday chided the US House of Representatives for failing to pass the FISA Amendments Act before leaving for a 12-day recess, saying that the US would be in greater danger of an attack when the temporary Protect America Act expires on Saturday. The US Senate voted 68-29 Tuesday to pass [...]

Thousands of interrogations of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been videotaped, according to a report released Thursday by professors and students at Seton Hall University School of Law . The report cites internal US military reports that say that more than 24,000 interrogations took place at Guantanamo over a three-year period and [...]

Australian Aborigine groups said Friday they are preparing lawsuits in response to an offical apology delivered Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in an address to Parliament, publicly accepting responsibility for the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people under the "laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments." Between 30 and 40 lawsuits will be [...]

The Russian Supreme Court Friday rejected for the second time an appeal by former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to reinstate his candidacy in the Russian presidential election to be held next month. The court previously rejected an appeal by Kasyanov last week after a one-day hearing. In January, the Russian Central Election Commission disqualified Kasyanov [...]