Members of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations promised to crack down on data brokers who gather private information after hearing testimony Wednesday from a former data broker who told the subcommittee how easily he obtained other people's information. James Rapp, who was forced out of business after [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday demanded that Afghanistan revoke recent National Security Directorate rules that restrict the freedom of the press and effectively ban journalists from writing about Afghanistan's failing security situation. Afghan journalists have said that the rules are a form of intimidation after major media organizations received a list of restrictions on [...]

An investigation into the death of 24 Iraqi civilians last November in Haditha focusing on whether senior military personnel covered up the deaths reportedly found several failures to follow up by Marine commanders, but no deliberate cover up of the deaths. The report by Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell , charged with leading the investigation, [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, says that progressive politicians in abolitionist and non-abolitionist countries alike – in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere – need to inform, educate and campaign for the abolition of capital punishment in their own countries and worldwide… One day, in a not [...]

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Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence, Center for Constitutional Rights, US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 21, 2006 custody, let alone how," and that a preservation order would not be unduly burdensome on the government]. Read the full text of the motion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor could begin as early as January, Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) officials said Wednesday. Taylor, who was transferred from Sierra Leone to The Hague on Tuesday, will await trial by the UN-backed SCSL at International Criminal Court (ICC) facilities in the Netherlands. At a [...]

Former Computer Associates senior vice president Thomas Bennett pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of obstruction of justice for his role in the company’s revenue-swapping of $2.2 billion with another company in 1999 and 2000. Bennett, who faces up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000, is the third CA executive to [...]

A retired Canadian Supreme Court justice said Wednesday that major flaws plaguing the Canadian justice system contributed to the mismanagement of the criminal trial and investigation into the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight from Montreal that exploded over the Atlantic near Ireland, killing 329 people, most of them Canadians. A judicial inquiry into [...]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday approved a review of media ownership rules , including limits on ownership of broadcast stations by one company and on cross-ownership by broadcasters and newspapers. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin said that the rules, which must be reviewed every four years, will be subject to more public hearings [...]