At least eleven people have reportedly died and several dozen others have sustained injuries in Pakistan in conjunction with a Saturday rally in Karachi in support of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry . Activists had gathered to protest the decision of President Pervez Musharraf to suspend Chaudhry amid ongoing violence in the country. AP [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday withdrew one of its proposals for tightened restrictions on contact between lawyers and their clients at Guantanamo Bay outlined in an earlier DOJ filing with the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Backtracking on a three-visit cap between detainees and their lawyers, DOJ lawyers said they continue to [...]

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal Friday struck down portions of the country's so-called Lustration Law passed in October 2006 requiring over 700,000 Polish professionals – academics , journalists, lawyers, diplomats and managers of state-owned companies – to file affidavits swearing they they never co-operated with the country's Communist-era secret police. The high court ruled that the government [...]

A Moroccan man convicted of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers lost an appeal to Germany's top criminal court Friday. Mounir el Motassadeq was convicted in November of being an accessory to murder for helping to protect the hijackers and maintain their facade of being regular university students; in January he was sentenced to 15 [...]

Cuba Friday accused the US of violating international anti-terrorism treaties by freeing anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles on bail and afterwards dismissing an indictment against him. In a statement published in state newspaper Granma, the Cuban government said Posada Carriles' release went against UN Security Council Resolution No. 1373 (2001), the International Convention for the [...]

The Thai government announced Friday that it has decided not to sue internet search giant Google after the company agreed to remove a YouTube video considered insulting to Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej . In April Thailand banned access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube , now owned by Google, for hosting a video depicting the [...]

Sudan may have violated international law by conducting "indiscriminate and disproportionate" air attacks in late April on at least five Darfur villages, according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour . Sudanese officials have denied the attacks. Arbour said helicopter gunships and Antonov aircraft were responsible for the attacks on villages near El [...]

Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Friday that 11 Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers will not face disciplinary action for the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man two weeks after the July 2005 London transit bombings . The IPCC, however, is waiting to determine whether the four most senior officers involved in the shooting [...]

A two-week UN conference to toughen the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons failed to reach any agreement Friday, as the United States and Iran traded accusations of bad faith. The US and its allies said Iran stalled the process by objecting to a phrase emphasizing the "need for full compliance" with the treaty, [...]

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has dismissed a third judge from the Ukrainian Constitutional Court , little more than a week after dismissing two others for alleged oath and ethics violations . The Russian Itar-Tass news service Friday quoted Constitutional Court chairman Ivan Dombrovsky as saying in response that he was "deeply worried by the situation [...]