Five Turkish journalists went on trial Monday on charges of "insulting state judicial organs" and "trying to influence the judicial process." Prosecutors filed these charges in December for comments regarding the government's attempts to ban a conference on the alleged genocide of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in World War I. If convicted, [...]

Rival black and Hispanic gangs took part in another racially motivated brawl late Monday evening at a Los Angeles County jail dorm, in a repeat of a similar brawl last weekend which killed one inmate and injured more than 100 others. Sheriff Lee Baca segregated roughly 90 inmates at the minimum security Pitchess Detention Center [...]

CNN is reporting that British-based Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been found guilty in the UK of inciting murder. Hamza faced several charges for urging his followers to kill Jews and other non-Muslims and using "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior" to stir up racial hatred. Hamza is also wanted in the United [...]

Former US President Jimmy Carter said Monday that President Bush overstepped his constitutional powers by authorizing the NSA's domestic surveillance program . The former president was also critical of Monday's testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in defense of the program. Carter called Gonzales' claims that the program [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudanese Minister for Foreign Affairs al-Samani al-Wasiylah has said that Sudan has backed off its initial refusal to allow a UN peacekeeping force into the Darfur region , but would still require consultation by UN officials before they would agree to the mandate. Al-Samani al-Wasiylah clarified that the Sudan government was [...]

US. v. Zacarias Moussaoui, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, February 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the questionnaire . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Prepared Statement of Hon. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, before the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA's Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the statement. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Guantanamo: Lives torn apart — The impact of indefinite detention on detainees and their families, Amnesty International, February 6, 2006 . Excerpt: In this document, Amnesty International relates the continuing plight of the detainees, and summarizes developments related to the ongoing hunger strike and further suicide attempts. The organization also assesses the situation of nine [...]

Manitoba MP Vic Toews became the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Monday when he was sworn in along with the rest of the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a ceremony in Ottawa. Harper's Conservative Party defeated the incumbent Liberals in the January federal election , putting them into opposition [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales late Monday concluded a day of testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's controversial domestic surveillance program . Although Gonzales maintained that the wiretapping program was a vital "early warning system" for terrorists, several Republicans and Democrats continued to challenge the president's authority to initiate the [...]