Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Monday rejected most challenges to last month's disputed presidential election , dismissing the bulk of fraud allegations brought by leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador filed over 200 separate complaints challenging the preliminary vote count which conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won by just 0.6 percent of the [...]

An Australian court on Monday ordered terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas to stay within the city of Melbourne and imposed an evening curfew in the first use of controversial "control orders" authorized under anti-terror legislation enacted late last year. Police requested the measures Sunday as the government still believes Thomas to be a [...]

An increase in Sudanese troops in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan could lead to a new human rights crisis there, Amnesty International warned Monday as the UN Security Council prepared to consider a proposal to deploy 20,000 UN troops to the area. Sudan denies any wrongdoing in Darfur and has proposed to the Council [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has refused to grant an injunction to halt a new Oklahoma law that requires parental notification at least 48 hours in advance of an abortion for a minor while Nova Health Systems , the parent group of Tulsa's Reproductive Services clinic , challenges the law in [...]

Two relatives of Hamid Hayat , who was convicted earlier this year of attending a terrorist training camp, have been prevented from re-entering the United States after a trip to Pakistan unless they submit to questioning by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation , according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle. Hayat was [...]

Plaintiffs in the 10-year-old Indian Trust case on Monday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reconsider a decision to pull an outspoken judge from the case. In July, the appeals court ruled that Judge Royce Lamberth's July 12, 2005 ruling and other orders against the Interior Department demonstrated that [...]

Jordan's National Assembly on Sunday approved anti-terror legislation that opponents predict will unnecessarily curtail individual liberties. The bill, which will become law when signed by King Abdullah II , is Jordan's first attempt to address terrorism since the deadly Amman hotel bomb that killed 57 people in 2005. In May, the political arm of the [...]

Sunni Iraqi legislator Tayseer al-Mashhadani, kidnapped on July 1 by as-yet-identified captors, has been released on the eve of the launch of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation project announced earlier this summer. Al-Maliki described Saturday's release as a "gift". Al-Mashhadani's captors had previously demanded the release of all Shiite prisoners , an end to [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says that as we celebrate the universality of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, we must recognize that the murder, rape, maiming, mutilation, and pillaging of non-combatants worldwide goes on unabated while the United States, once a champion of the Conventions, has stumbled and committed [...]

New Orleans Judge Arthur Hunter is slated to start reviewing the records of New Orleans prisoners in view of their possible release on Tuesday, the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina , which devastated the city and its court system last year. Some 6,000 cases are backlogged and only half of the New Orleans courthouse's [...]