Saddam Hussein has authorized three more lawyers to work with the four already representing him at his Baghdad trial for the 1982 massacre at Dujail that left as many as 143 Shiite Muslims dead. The defense team additions are: Saleh Armouti, president of the Jordanian Bar Association, one of 500 Jordanians who volunteered their services; [...]

The Federation Council , Russia's upper house of parliament, voted 152-1 Tuesday for a bill first approved by the lower house last month that greatly increases state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by implementing strict registration requirements, imposing financial oversight on their operations, and providing for dissolution if an organization participates in activities deemed to [...]

Officials in the Austrian city of Graz have removed all references to Arnold Schwarzenegger from the city's website in the wake of controversy over the California Governor's decision earlier this month to deny clemency to Crips gang co-founder and convicted murder Stanley "Tookie" Williams . In an apparent attempt to head off censure by the [...]

Over 10,000 Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad Tuesday to protest alleged fraud in the December 15 parliamentary elections in Iraq . Complaints of fraud surfaced almost immediately after the polls closed , with the majority of allegations coming from a group that lead Tuesday's demonstrations, the Maram (in Arabic, "goal") alliance, a coalition [...]

A Kuwaiti court Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants to death for their involvement in a January 2005 clash with police that left several people dead. All the men were members of the Peninsula Lions Brigades, a fundamentalist group linked to al Qaeda and on the country's terror watch list for plotting to carry out terrorist [...]

A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced former minister of land and natural resources Tian Fengshan to life in prison after finding him guilty of accepting over $500,000 in bribes during his time in office. The Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court found that Fengshan, charged late last month , "took advantage of his position" for personal [...]

The British government Tuesday filed an anticipated appeal challenging a recent High Court decision that Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is entitled to British citizenship. Hick's lawyers want citizenship for Hicks, whose mother is British, in order to take advantage of the British government's success in urging the US to not put British citizens through [...]

Polish government spokesperson Konrad Ciesiolkiewicz announced Tuesday that an official probe into the alleged existence of secret CIA prisons in the country has ended. Zbigniew Wassermann , the Polish minister in charge of the country's intelligence services, delivered his report to members of a parliamentary commission last week; meeting in a closed door session the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, says that California Arnold Schwarzenegger's ruling denying clemency in ths case of Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams disregarded the constitutional foundations of clemency practice… By denying clemency to Stanley "Tookie" Williams Arnold Schwarzenegger did more than allow [...]

Russian prosecutors leading the probe into the September 2004 Beslan school siege issued a report Monday concluding that Chechen terrorists, not Russian authorities, were to blame for the deaths of 330 people, mostly children. Another 783 were wounded. Relatives of the victims have blamed the tragedy on officials who they claim failed to stop the [...]