Five Chinese Uighur men who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay despite a determination that they are not enemy combatants have been flown to Albania , where government officials are reviewing their applications for asylum. According to a statement from the US State Department late Friday: the government of Albania accepted for resettlement as refugees [...]

British police have said that Anjem Choudary and Abdul Muhid now face criminal charges stemming from their roles in the February 3 demonstration outside the Danish embassy in London against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were initially printed in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The men were originally arrested March [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a case challenging federal and California laws prohibiting same-sex marriage , saying that the plaintiffs must await the outcome of litigation in California state courts. In its opinion Friday, the court ruled that: Smelt and Hammer have presented us [...]

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will retry Umer Hayat, who is accused of lying to the FBI about his son's alleged terrorism-related activities, after jury deadlock in his first trial prompted US District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to declare a mistrial . Umer and his son, Hamid Hayat , were charged last year [...]

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton has ruled that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will have to turn over documents essential to the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby legal defense team regarding how a secret government intelligence report on Iraq was declassified. Walton's decision came in a hearing Friday concerning several Libby document requests in preparation for [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran has a legal right to pursue its nuclear program and condemned a draft UN Security Council resolution currently being circulated , saying it does not have a legal basis. In comments during a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Azerbaijan, Ahmadinejad also said that Iran was [...]

Immigration Law Sanctions and Enforcement in Selected Foreign Countries, Law Library of Congress Directorate of Legal Research, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Supplemental Submission to the Committee Against Torture, Huamn Rights Watch, April 2006 . Read the full text of the submission. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encouraged the US on Friday to lead the world in advancing human rights in a speech at George Washington University, and criticized the Bush administration for deciding not to seek a position to the new UN Human Rights Council . Annan noted that the first members of the Human Rights Council [...]