Leading Thursday's international brief, at least three protestors were killed in Kathmandu as hundreds violated a day-long curfew in the capital city ordered by the Nepalese government aimed at breaking the continued pro-democracy protests staged against the rule of King Gyanendra . The three individuals were pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital and doctors [...]

According to figures compiled by Amnesty International , 2,148 people were executed around the world in 2005, with the most executions being performed in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US. In its report released Thursday, Amnesty noted that China executed 94 percent of the total number, while 94 people were executed in Iran, 86 [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the author of an amicus brief on Guantanamo detainee appeals recently filed on behalf of legal scholars in the US DC Circuit, says that interpreting the Detainee Treatment Act to eliminate habeas corpus [...]

A Bosnian immigrant admitted in a US district court Wednesday that he lied to US immigration officers about his participation in ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War when he allegedly participated in the 1995 killings of 1,200 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. Marko Boskic currently lives in the Boston area and has not been [...]

Efforts to identify a country willing to take in former Liberian President Charles Taylor after his war crimes trial at The Hague are now focused on Denmark, according to diplomats speaking on the condition of anonymity. A request has been made informally by US officials leading the search for a country, but Denmark said it [...]

Race and Color Discrimination, Section 15 of the Compliance Manual, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), issued April 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the compliance manual section. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

In the Matter of Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Federal Election Commission, April 18, 2006 . Read the full text of the agreement. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Clark v. Arizona , 05-5966, a case in which the Court will decide the constitutionality of Arizona statutes governing insanity defenses in criminal cases. In June 2000 at the age of 17, Eric Clark, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, shot and killed police officer Jeff Moritz [...]

List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process, US Department of Defense, released April 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the list , with prisoners' name associated with country of citizenship. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The defense team in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday called several witnesses in an effort to prevent a death sentence for the convicted Sept. 11 conspirator, including two family members of Sept. 11 victims, and more mental health experts. In stark contrast to the dozens of victims' relatives who testified for the [...]