Belarus authorities have sentenced Alexander Milinkevich and three other opposition leaders to a fifteen-day jail term for attending an illegal demonstration after arresting them Thursday. At the peaceful rally in Minsk, the capital, Milinkevich called on his supporters to work for a constitutional overthrow of President Alexander Lukashenko . About 6,000 people attended the rally, [...]
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US v. I. Lewis Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Reggie B. Walton, April 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the memorandum opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives on Thursday postponed debate on the Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 in order to allow more time for the bill's supporters to secure enough votes to pass the legislation. Congress has taken up lobbying reform in the wake of a federal corruption scandal centering [...]
Hurricane Katrina investigation report, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, April 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the report and additional documentation. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
By the Numbers: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project, New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, April 26, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by posting essays on the Internet in favor of a movement entitled the "Velvet Action of China," according [...]
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that he is considering proposing legislation that would suspend funding for the NSA domestic surveillance program if the Bush administration continues "walking all over Congress." Specter said that he is unsatisfied with the answers on the program that administration officials [...]
American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes , but said he was "willing to pay the price" – possibly decades in jail – for admittedly fighting against the United States. Sharbi asked to [...]
Several US states, cities, and environmental groups led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit claiming the EPA has violated the federal Clean Air Act by failing to regulate carbon dioxide pollution from new [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 4-3 Thursday that it is constitutional for a judge to require a convicted sex offender to turn over DNA samples to the Canadian National DNA Data Bank , even if the offender was convicted before the enactment of the 2000 law establishing the bank. The Court's decision reversed a [...]
