Ali al-Shemri, head of Iraq's Ministry of Health , alleged Sunday that US troops wrongfully detained five members of his personal security force and stole their salaries during an early morning raid of the Health Ministry Building. An anonymous coalition official said the raid was conducted following a tip related to a kidnapping. Al-Shemri denied [...]

The Australian government's proposed Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill that would require asylum seekers arriving by boat to be processed at offshore camps faces a close vote in the Senate this week, Australian media reported Sunday. The bill passed the Australian House of Representatives on Thursday by a margin of 78-62. The Liberal party [...]

Federal prosecutors have asked US District Court Judge Sim Lake to order former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling to pay $182.2 million for his part in the conspiracy with Kenneth Lay on counts of fraud, conspiracy, and insider trading. Originally the government had split the amount between the two – $139.3 million from Skilling and [...]

The speaker of Iran's parliament indicated Sunday that the country would pull out of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if what he called its "inalienable rights" to uranium enrichment were taken away. Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel stated that such a withdrawal "is well justified." Referring to the UN Security Council resolution passed last month calling for [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told the parents of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in a July 12 raid that Israel is willing to negotiate with Hezbollah for their release, Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday. Olmert said before that he would not negotiate to free the soldiers, but Israel has previously traded prisoners for [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law offers his analysis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East conflict involving Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon… Hezbollah's surprising television announcement accepting the terms of the UN Ceasefire Resolution means that the precise wording of [...]

Public Citizen v. Clerk, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge John D. Bates, August 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the memorandum opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A former Iraqi Minister of Electricity was named Saturday as one of a number of former and current officials charged with corruption by Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity or ordered to appear before Iraqi judges for further investigation. Muhsin Shlash, cited but not yet charged, was an Iraqi exile living in Canada who took over [...]

US Army Sgt. Ricky Clousing, an Iraq war veteran, turned himself in at Fort Lewis on Friday after absconding from Fort Bragg in June 2005 because he no longer wanted to participate in what he says is a war with "no legal basis to be fought." Clousing's lawyers have said they attempted to contact both [...]

The London Metropolitan Police Service says it has released without charge one of the 24 people arrested earlier this week over an alleged plan to blow up US airplanes leaving from British airports . Police have obtained warrants to keep 22 of the suspects in detention without charge until next Wednesday, and a court hearing [...]