Leading Tuesday's international brief, the UN Security Council has expressed its approval of the African Union decision to extend the AU peacekeeping force mandate for Darfur by six months. The AU Peace and Security Council announced it will keep AU peacekeepers in Darfur until September 30, when it plans to hand control of the peacekeeping [...]

Zimbabwe police Monday denied torture allegations by suspects arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe . Senior Assistant Commissioner Ronald Muderedzwa said only 11 people have been arrested , but continuing investigations into the stockpiled weapons found last week may lead to more arrests. The arrested individuals [...]

Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in what has been described as one of the biggest capital cases in US history: charges in the case [...]

The president of the NAACP called on the US Justice Department Monday to block New Orleans mayoral elections currently scheduled for April 22, saying they would be "illegal" because the state of Louisiana "cannot guarantee or provide some level of insurance that a substantial percentage of New Orleans voters will be able to vote either [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over the weekend. The court, which had been trying the case against Milosevic for over four years, expressed regret to the victims of the [...]

A resolution introduced Monday in the US Senate by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush over domestic spying received only lukewarm approval from Feingold's fellow Democrats, preventing a floor vote and resulting in referral to the Senate Judiciary Committee . Several Democratic leaders said that they wanted to see the complete results of [...]

Belarus authorities in Minsk Monday sentenced fifteen opposition activists to short jail terms as part of the government's latest effort to suppress opposition before Sunday's presidential elections. According to human rights monitors, the activists were not given access to lawyers during the court hearings and were intimidated by the court authorities. Alexander Milinkevich , the [...]

The controversial UK Identity Cards Bill will go back to the House of Lords on Wednesday after Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party won a critical vote in the House of Commons to back a proposal that would make registration for the cards mandatory when applying for a passport. Initially, Labour vowed to make [...]

Government's Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice and/or Exclusion of Witness, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 . Read the full text of the memorandum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Defendant's Memorandum in Support of his Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice and for Other Relief, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 . Read the full text of the memorandum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.