US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials must testify about whether they shared classified national defense information with two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday. Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, indicted in 2005 under the 1917 Espionage Act for allegedly conspiring to receive and disclose [...]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York vacating an FCC determination that Fox Television broadcasts violated the FCC's indecency and profanity prohibitions. The appeals court ruled that the FCC's "fleeting expletives" standard breached the [...]

The UN Human Rights Committee expressed concern Friday over continuing human rights violations in Algeria. In its 2007 report on the North African country, the Committee flagged massacres, torture, rape and disappearances, as well as religious and political oppression. It concluded that the violence was a product of both armed groups and government security forces, [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague announced Friday that hearings in a case involving France and Djibouti will begin January 21, 2008. The dispute between the two countries is over whether a French judge has the authority to summon high-level Djibouti witnesses to investigate the possible assassination of French judge Bernard Borrel [...]

United States of America v. Steven J. Rosen, and Keith Weissman, US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, November 2, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Amnesty International Friday urged governments worldwide not to transfer genocide suspects to Rwanda until fair trials there can be guaranteed. The human rights group is concerned about the Rwandan justice system's fairness and impartiality with respect to international standards of justice. The director of the group's Africa Programme, Erwin van der Borght, said: The various [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan judge presiding over the case challenging the legality of President Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid said Friday that the court will move ahead with hearings and will likely issue a verdict by November 6. Although Judge Javed Iqbal has previously said that hearings would be delayed until November 12, he said [...]

US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Friday that he will not support the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney general, citing Mukasey's continuing reluctance to unequivocally denounce waterboarding as torture. Mukasey must receive ten votes from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination to advance to the full Senate with a [...]

The Chad Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of European citizens connected to the attempt by French charity Zoe's Arc to fly 103 children believed to be orphans from the embattled Darfur region of Sudan to France will be transferred to stand trial in the capital of N'Djamena. Six French nationals have been charged [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard arguments Thursday on whether a 2003 Virginia law banning so-called partial-birth abortions is constitutional. In a 2-1 split in 2005, a panel of judges on the same court ruled the law unconstitutional because it lacked an an exception to protect the [...]