Saddam Hussein could be put to death by hanging within months if he's convicted in his first trial, according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi High Criminal Court, formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal . In an interview reported in the London Sunday Times, Ja'afar Moussawi said that a new Iraqi law mandates that death [...]

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , facing possible indictment for allegedly bribing his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, told supporters at a campaign rally in Verona Saturday that the case against him is "…without proof, completely baseless, which however has become a media and political fact," according to the Italian [...]

Influential radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has parted ways with his partners in the biggest Iraqi parliamentary bloc by rejecting the federal system described in the new Iraqi constitution . Al-Sadr told Aljazeera on Saturday, "If there is a democratic government in Iraq, nobody has the right to call for the establishment of federalism [...]

A Saturday protest by Nigerian Muslims in the northeastern city of Maiduguru over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to sectarian violence in which at least 15 people were killed, 15 Christian churches were burned, and dozens arrested before rioters were stopped by police. The death toll was the highest in any [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Bernard Freamon of Seton Hall University Law School says that Danish prosecutors should revisit their decision not to charge the Danish newspaper editors responsible for the initial printing of the satirical Muhammad cartoons before the worldwide violence over their publication and republication gets even more out of hand… People demand freedom of [...]

Anthony D'Amato : "Lawyers in Denmark should investigate their criminal law of attempt, incitement to murder, conspiracy to murder, and procuring murder. If any of these are available under Danish law, then there would be no impediment against indicting the Islamic cleric who has offered an immense reward to anyone who murders the Danish cartoonist [...]

Gonzalez v. Google, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, February 17, 2006 . Excerpt: Google users trust that when they enter a search query into a Google search box, not only will they receive back the most relevant results, but that Google will keep private whatever information users [...]

The NAACP Saturday urged the US Department of Justice to block a Louisiana state election plan for New Orleans that will make it very difficult for displaced black voters to participate in the election. Though the election plan allows for changes in parish voting locations as well as the use of election personnel from outside [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo officially adopted a new constitution on Saturday when President Joseph Kabila signed into law the charter that voters approved in a referendum late last year. The Constitution is designed to bring peace to the country after five years of war, and provides for national elections to be held by June [...]

Google, Inc. formally rejected a subpoena from the US Department of Justice for search data on Friday, arguing that the subpoena violated the privacy of Google customers and its own trade secrets. Google also asserted that the government’s demand to disclose Google’s web searches was impractical, as the searches change on a daily basis and [...]