A leading British judge has said that sitting judges are considering breaking tradition by speaking out against recent verbal attacks on the judiciary by government ministers and elements of the press . Judge Keith Cutler, Secretary of the Council of Circuit Judges , observed in a radio interview Sunday that judges felt "that there was [...]

The Boston Globe reported Sunday that the US government has failed to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees access to witnesses even though some of those witnesses were available. The US has told detainees in the past that it was unable to locate witnesses requested by terror suspects, but a Boston Globe reporter was able to locate [...]

A Serbian government official has told AP that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic was hiding in Serbia until last year, but his current location remains unknown. Rasim Ljajic , Serbia's Minister of Human and Minority Rights and head of a government committee working with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague [...]

Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana signed a bill Saturday that could ban most abortions in the state. The bill, which would apply to all abortions except when the life of the mother is threatened, will take effect only if the US Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision or if the US Constitution [...]

A trial began Saturday for 14 Egyptians charged with helping the men who carried out two bombings in the city of Cairo in April 2005 that left 10 people and the two bombers dead. Tourists appeared to be the targets and an American and two French citizens were among the dead. The defendants face various [...]

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin offered an implied criticism of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in a speech to the Institute of Higher Studies of National Defense Friday in which he said efforts to fight terrorism must always be made "while respecting the rule of law." Villepin declared: In order for the [...]

Two weeks after the arrests of 17 Canadians on terrorism-related charges in the Toronto area, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday announced that his government will step up anti-terrorism efforts in Canada by adding more security at airports, marine ports and railway systems. Harper also indicated that $224 million of the $1.3 billion federal security [...]

The upper chamber of the French parliament adopted a controversial immigration bill Friday after the French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve the measure last month. The bill makes it more difficult for unskilled workers to gain access to the country since a "skills and talents" requirement is necessary to get a residency permit. The [...]

Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the death penalty. Attorneys Jane Siegel and Jeremiah Sullivan III said their clients were questioned for eight-hour periods on at least three [...]

Resolution 1688 (2006), UN Security Council, June 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the resolution. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.