Over 10,000 protesters, most of them African-American, marched in front of the US Department of Justice building Friday to highlight what they claim are inadequate efforts to prosecute a spate of recent race-related crimes across the country. A focal point of the march was the prosecution of six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana for beating [...]

Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc., et al., v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, November 16, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A US Marine invoked his right to defer his plea at his Friday military arraignment on charges stemming from the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005. A lawyer for Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani did say that he planned to plead not guilty. Trial has been scheduled for April 28. Chessani [...]

The Georgian Republic ended its national state of emergency Friday, as promised earlier this week. On Wednesday, Georgian Speaker of Parliament Nino Burdzhanadze had announced in a televised statement on behalf of the government that emergency rule would be lifted Friday. A government spokesperson also announced Friday that Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli has resigned; [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday ruled that a defunct Muslim charity cannot use a document turned over to it by the US government as evidence that it was the subject of an illegal wiretap. The court held that a secret call log accidentally given to lawyers for the Al-Haramain Islamic [...]

Turkish lawmakers Friday moved to disband the country's leading pro-Kurdish political party and boot its representatives from parliament. Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya charged the Democratic Society Party with separatism after members gave speeches last week in support of autonomy for Kurds living in the country's southeast. The prosecutor's office will send an indictment to the [...]

Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007, November 15, 2007 . —————– Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Proclamation of Emergency of the 3rd day of November, 2007 and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the Chief of Army Staff is pleased to make and promulgate the following Order:- 1. (1) This Order [...]

General Pervez Musharraf Thursday amended the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) issued under the country's declaration of emergency rule on November 3 to allow the country's president to revoke the state of emergency. The original PCO was issued by Musharraf in capacity as head of the military, but Musharraf said earlier this week that he expected [...]

Rwandan investigators delivered a report Friday to Rwandan President Paul Kagame on alleged French involvement in the 1994 genocide in the African nation. Specific details have not yet been disclosed, but Rwandan Attorney General Tharcisse Karugarama told Reuters that "the report does implicate very heavily different key players in the Rwandan genocide." He added that [...]

The UN General Assembly's Third Committee on Thursday voted 99-52 to place a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty . Thirty-three countries abstained from the vote. Opponents of the resolution , including Singapore, Egypt, and Botswana, argued before the committee Wednesday that it would infringe on nations' sovereignty, and presented a list of 14 last-minute [...]