Lawyers for the Australian government argued that control orders do not violate the country's constitution during a Tuesday court hearing in the case of an Australian man convicted in February 2006 of receiving money from an al Qaeda associate. Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas successfully appealed the conviction in August 2006, but the Australian government [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday that provisions in the Military Commissions Act stripping foreign nationals held as "enemy combatants" of the right to file habeas corpus petitions challenging their detentions do not violate the Suspension Clause of the US Constitution. The ruling came in the consolidated cases of hundreds [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Tuesday, including Philip Morris USA v. Williams , where the Court overturned a $79.5 million punitive damages verdict against Philip Morris USA . The Oregon Supreme Court last year upheld a jury award of nearly $80 million in punitive damages against the company because it [...]

The Meshrano Jirga , the upper house of the Afghanistan parliament , Tuesday approved a resolution calling for amnesty from war crimes prosecution for leaders of the Afghan mujahedeen resistance who fought against Soviet forces in the 1980s and later engaged in murder and torture during the country's civil war . Both houses of parliament [...]

Authorities in Bangladesh plan to publish a list of several hundred people who are suspected of graft, following the Sunday arrests of 50 high-profile suspects, according to a government official. Delowar Hossain, secretary of the Anti-Corruption Commission , said the list will include former ministers of the Bangladesh government, politicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats. The 50 [...]

Giovanni Di Stefano : "If this is the manner in which my clients have been treated and indicative of how the US/UK security services conduct their interrogations then it is no wonder that there is so much opposition to the United States of America. This matter has been now reported to the UN Human Rights [...]

Two US Congressmen Monday pressed their case for legislation investigating the treatment of 2,300 Japanese descendants from 13 Latin American countries held in US internment camps during World War II. Bill sponsors Reps. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Dan Lungren (R-CA) spoke out in a Washington Post editorial on the Day of Remembrance marking the anniversary [...]

The lead judge in the mass trial of suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings asked the Spanish government Monday to declassify documents allegedly linking a defendant to the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) . The 29 defendants are charged with 192 counts of murder and over 1,800 counts of attempted murder related [...]

Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice John Major temporarily closed proceedings on the 1985 Air India bombing investigation on Monday until certain documents are publicly released. Major said he cannot carry out the probe without particular documents from the Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) , but the Canadian government maintains [...]

The Philippines House of Representatives adopted a new anti-terrorism law on Monday allowing authorities to detain suspected terrorists for up to three days without filing charges. The legislation, known as the Human Security Act of 2007, includes a provision that grants wrongfully detained persons a right to compensation of up to P500,000, equivalent to roughly [...]