Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu Sunday despite a Saturday-imposed curfew and threats from the government to shoot violators on sight. Scuffles with police, one death, and numerous injuries were reported, as were protests in other cities. The protests are part of a general strike against direct rule [...]

King Gyanendra of Nepal announced a strict all-day curfew Saturday that forced pro-democracy leaders to postpone a large rally organized by the country's seven main political parties. He ordered violators to be shot on sight. Government officials said the curfew was imposed out of concern that Maoist rebels would use the rally as a cover [...]

President Bush indicated in his weekly radio address Saturday that he would not support any immigration reform that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. Although he continued to call for a temporary guest worker program , he insisted:A new temporary worker program should not provide amnesty. Granting amnesty would be unfair to those who follow [...]

A US military lawyer acting as defense counsel for a Yemeni prisoner on trial for terrorism-related offenses before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay on Friday challenged a US Department of Defense regulation that says that only military attorneys with security clearances are allowed to see secret documents relating to their cases, effectively precluding detainees [...]

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez said Friday that the international community remains reluctant to contribute the funds and military personnel necessary to stop genocide worldwide, as he spoke at a press conference on the 12th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda , during which some 800,000 Rwandans – mostly Tutsis [...]

Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed , alleged to have masterminded the 2004 Madrid train bombings , claimed Friday in papers filed with the Italian court hearing his criminal case that he had been mistreated by Spanish and Italian law enforcement since his 2004 arrest in Milan . In a handwritten pleading, Ahmed accused law enforcement officials [...]

The Santiago Court of Appeals Friday dismissed two charges against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet of forging Chilean Defense Ministry documents and failing to declare assets in a tax return, while upholding his tax evasion indictment on other two other counts, including passport falsification. The indictment stems from an investigation of Pinochet's secret offshore back [...]

US Chamber of Commerce v. SEC, United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, April 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Vacating a lesser sentence, the Quebec Court of Appeal has imposed an 18-month prison term on Canadian advertising executive Paul Coffin, who last May pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud in the federal sponsorship scandal . The trial court originally ordered Coffin to serve a conditional sentence of two years in the community with [...]

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday found Nedjo Samardzic guilty of committing crimes against humanity and escaping from prison during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and sentenced him to 13 years imprisonment. Samardzic, a Bosnian Serb army leader and convicted murderer who escaped prison in 1992 to join [...]