A special session of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals meeting at the University of Utah Wednesday will hear arguments about a Utah state law that prohibits the desecration of the US flag . Several different individuals are challenging the law's constitutionality, alleging that Salt Lake County officials acted against the US Supreme Court [...]
US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has ordered government lawyers to restore redacted portions of their brief concerning the release of further photographs and video of Abu Ghraib Prison after a closed session review of the relevant information. Hellerstein said Monday after the review that he "generally ruled in favor of public disclosure" and that [...]
Israeli police officer Yuval Avargil testified Monday in the ongoing trial against Sami Al-Arian , a former University of South Florida professor that has been charged , along with three other men, with raising money for and supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad in conducting suicide bombings in Israel. Avargil gave graphic testimony concerning the after-effects of [...]
National Guard acting adjutant general Brigadier Gen. John R. Alexander has said that a confidential report released Monday proves that the National Guard unit known as the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program was not spying on civilians, as ACLU activists and California state Sen. Joseph Dunn previously alleged . Alexander says that [...]
Public commentary on the proposed revisions to Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990) began Tuesday, as the government opened up communication for medical professionals and the general public to provide commentary on proposed changes to the fertility legislation. The HFEA 1990 created the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority , which decided that as part [...]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights , part of the judicial branch of the Organization of American States regional body, has ordered the Suriname government to pay $13,000 (USD) to each of the 130 survivors of a 1986 massacre of the N'djuka Maroon village of Moiwana by Suriname military forces. The massacre occurred during a [...]
Despite initial optimism, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned the international community that Cambodia , one of Asia's poorest nations, cannot afford its share of the projected costs for an international criminal tribunal targeting Khmer Rouge leaders. Hun Sen said that Cambodia can only afford $1.5 million (USD) of the $13 million (USD) it [...]
A series of almost simultaneous attacks and riots in seven of Guatemala's prisons Monday has left 31 inmates dead and many more injured. Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann said the gun and knife attacks at prisons around Southern Guatemala show the power that gangs have to spread terror. Vielmann says the inmates were able to [...]
In a Tuesday ruling, the Supreme Court of Israel temporarily halted government plans to demolish 30 synagogues and eight Torah academies in the Gaza Strip. The decision was in response to a petition from Elei Sinai rabbi Yishai Brohan requesting the buildings be moved to Israel proper. While the pullout officially began Monday , the [...]
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has decided to pardon Lena Baker , a black maid, 60 years after she was executed for killing a white man, board spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb said Monday. Baker, found guilty by an all-white, all-male jury in Georgia, claimed she shot E.B. Knight, a man she had been hired [...]