Eleven suspects charged in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared in a UK court for the first time Tuesday. Eight defendants were remanded in custody until a hearing on September 4, two were remanded until September 19, and the last, a 17-year-old-boy, was remanded until August 29. [...]

Witness testimony began Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation that led to the killings of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. Two survivors described planes flying over two Kurdish villages dropping chemical weapons on the villagers and [...]

Legal papers belonging to Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks were among those seized by US investigators in a probe into the June suicides of three other Guantanamo inmates – a Yemeni and two Saudis – at the US military prison in June, according to Australian media reports Monday. The seizure of Hicks' material and similar [...]

US v. Padilla, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, August 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US District Judge Marcia Cooke has dismissed one of the charges brought against terror suspect Jose Padilla and his two co-defendants, ruling that the charge is "multiplicitous" and violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. In an order made available Monday, Cooke dismissed Count 1 of the indictment , [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday called on all states to standardize their criminal statutes dealing with sexual predators during a speech given at the 18th Annual Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas. Gonzales praised most states for their efforts in rewriting statutes to effectively charge, convict, sentence, and punish sexual predators, but called [...]

A Russian court on Monday rejected the case against former Russian Atomic Minister Yevgeny Adamov , citing factual errors in court filings, and told prosecutors to develop the case further before presenting it to the court a second time. Adamov is charged with fraud and abuse of power for allegedly using US government funds from [...]

The Congolese Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) , charged with overseeing the July presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, released the provisional results of the election on Monday, and announced that a run-off between President Joseph Kabila , who won 45 percent of the vote, and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba , who won 20 [...]

A judge in Missouri heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit challenging a Missouri law requiring voters to show photo identification before being permitted to vote. The class-action lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the law was filed by Democratic Party officials in July. The bench trial began Monday and the defense plans to [...]

UK authorities on Monday charged 11 people in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Eight were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and with preparing acts of terrorism, a violation of Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 , for the alleged plan to manufacture a bomb to [...]