US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and other leading Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday pushed for legislation authorizing military commissions for terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay during a committee hearing on how the government should proceed in bringing terror suspects to justice following the Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. [...]

The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which they believe occurred because of inadequate security provided by US forces. Defense lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, who claims the hunger [...]

Bosnian immigrant Marko Boskic was convicted Wednesday when a US federal jury found that he had failed to reveal his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre while trying to enter the US as a refugee. Boskic was charged in August 2004 with five counts of making false declarations on US immigration applications and in an [...]

US Reps. Christopher Shays (R-CT) and Martin Meehan (D-MA) have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) challenging new rules regarding campaign communications that can be narrow FEC standard of what constitutes "coordination" would permit groups or individuals with economic or political clout to have too strong a voice in elections. Such groups [...]

US District Judge Harold Murphy on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Georgia's voter ID law until a full trial can be held in a challenge brought by civil rights groups . Murphy, the same federal judge who struck down a previous version of the law last year, said that the current law [...]

House Republicans have agreed to hold a vote Thursday on extending provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act for another 25 years, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) announced Wednesday. In June Southern lawmakers unexpectedly balked at two key provisions – one requiring nine mostly Southern states with a history of race-based voter discrimination to seek [...]

British Members of Parliament voted to adjourn the House of Commons early Wednesday in protest against the pending extradition of three British NatWest bankers to the US to face charges in the Enron fraud scandal . During a three-hour debate before the vote, Liberal Democrat shadow Home Secretary MP Nick Clegg criticized Prime Minister Tony [...]

Ugandan Security Minister Amama Mbabazi on Wednesday asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to retract its indictments against several leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) for war crimes in an effort to encourage senior LRA rebels to attend peace talks with the Ugandan government. The peace talks, scheduled to begin Wednesday, have been delayed [...]

The Malaysian Federal Court on Wednesday upheld the expulsion of three students who refused to abide by School Regulations 1997, which prohibits the wearing of Islamic turbans at school. The challenge to the religious dress regulation was brought under Article 11(1) of the Malaysian Constitution , which reads, "very person has the right to profess [...]

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) , part of Europe's human rights watchdog the Council of Europe , called on Albania Wednesday to improve prisoner treatment in the country's network of prisons. The CPT published reports from a July 2003 visit and a May-June 2005 visit [...]