The California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District has ruled that the state may continue to transfer prisoners out-of-state while litigation proceeds over the challenged program to deal with California's prison overcrowding . The state has appealed a Sacramento County Superior Court ruling against the program , which began out-of-state transfers in November. Currently, 360 [...]

The UN Committee Against Torture Monday urged Poland to disclose details regarding a parliamentary investigation into the presence of secret CIA prisons in the country on Monday, expressing concern that Poland participated in running terrorist suspect prisons in the country. Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that the government regarded the allegations as a "closed [...]

Police in Zimbabwe are refusing to comply with a High Court ruling requiring police officials to vacate Portwe farm in the Matabeleland North province, which was seized by police in March. High Court Judge Francis Bere ruled last week that the police seizure was illegal and issued an order requiring the police to return control [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will review allegations of rape and other violence committed in the Central African Republic (CAR), ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday. According to Moreno-Ocampo, reports detailing hundreds of rape victims "calling for justice" have been turned over to the Prosecutor's Office, which will now conduct its own investigation. Moreno-Ocampo said [...]

Twenty-one men on trial for assorted crimes under anti-terror laws in Mauritania accused police officials Monday of using torture to extract confessions. All 21 of the suspects are charged with belonging to the "non-authorized organization" Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) , a known wing of the al Qaeda organization, and several of the [...]

President Bush said Monday that he still fully supports US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales despite the growing number of Republicans who have expressed concern over the firings of nine federal prosecutors , telling reporters at a press conference on the Bush Ranch that "He has got my confidence. He has done nothing wrong…I stand by [...]

The British Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with murder in the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko . British prosecutors are seeking Lugovoi's arrest and extradition, and a high-level deputy of British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett summoned Russian Ambassador Yury [...]

Leaders in the US Senate said Monday that a final vote on an immigration reform agreement reached last week will be delayed until June due to opposition from both sides in Congress. Some Republican senators have derided the latest immigration reform plan as amounting to "amnesty" for up to 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in [...]

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU-Texas) won a temporary restraining order from the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas Monday, blocking the enforcement of an anti-illegal immigration city ordinance that was scheduled to take effect Tuesday in Farmers Branch, Texas. [...]

More than one hundred Muslim extremists belonging to the group al-Jihad have been released from Egyptian prisons over the last two weeks, according to Egyptian police on Monday. The prisoners, many of whom had been held for over a decade, were released only after signing statements renouncing the use of violence to promote their cause. [...]