President Bush on Memorial Day signed into law the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act , legislation barring protests near military funerals originally passed in the US House of Representatives and approved last week by the Senate . The law will prohibit any demonstration within 300 feet of the entrance of a national cemetery and [...]

Saddam Hussein complained Tuesday that chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman of the Iraqi High Criminal Court is not giving the defense in Hussein's trial the same consideration the prosecution was given while presenting its case. Abdel-Rahman has decreased his tolerance for a string of defense witnesses who do not have direct knowledge of the charges against [...]

A court in South Korea on Tuesday sentenced Kim Woo-choong , founder of collapsed conglomerate Daewoo Group , to ten years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of over $10,000 while forfeiting $22 billion gained through embezzlement and accounting fraud. Kim was indicted last year on charges of ordering Daewoo executives to [...]

A Belarus court on Monday sentenced Sergei Lyashkevich, an official who helped run the campaign of opposition presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich , to five months in jail for training and paying people to riot during the protests that ensued after the March presidential election . Lyashkevich, who headed Milinkevich's campaign office in the western town [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, one of the lead attorneys on the Center for Constitutional Rights' challenge to the NSA domestic surveillance program, says that the government's invocation of the state secrets privilege in a motion to dismiss the case filed late last week contradicts the core idea of judicial review and essentially allows [...]

The US military said Monday that the number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has increased from 3 to about 75. Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand described the strike as an effort to attract attention. He speculated that it may be related to the events of May 18 , when 4 detainees supposedly [...]

A UN official Monday warned members of fundamentalist Islamic and secular warlord militias fighting for control of the Somali capital of Mogadishu “that any deliberate attempt to prevent wounded or civilians receiving assistance and protection during fighting in the city may constitute elements of future war crimes.” Fighting between various factions has intensified in the [...]

US Marine Corps General Peter Pace , chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , declined comment Monday on the Pentagon's investigation into the November 2005 killings of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians in the troubled city of Haditha, in the western Anbar province of Iraq. Pace emphasized that if service members are [...]

A Bangladesh court in Dhaka Monday sentenced seven Islamic militants, including leaders Shayek Abdur Rahman of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen and Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh , to death for the murder of two judges in a bomb attack last year. Both men shouted "All praise to Allah" as the verdict was read; [...]

The defense team for Saddam Hussein on Monday called several witnesses to testify on behalf of Awad al-Bandar , head of the court responsible for sentencing 148 Shiites to death after a 1982 assassination attempt against the former Iraqi leader in the town of Dujail . Though the trial of the Shiites included only one [...]