Human rights watchdog group Amnesty International released a new report Monday detailing and assailing the UK's detention of asylum seekers, which it said is "inappropriate, unnecessary, disproportionate and, therefore, unlawful" and has led to mental illness and even suicide attempts. The report concludes that in 2003 the UK detained 27,000 potential refugees in jail-like conditions. [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision that public defenders had wrongfully failed to review records showing evidence of mental retardation and a troubled childhood in the case of Pennsylvania death row inmate Ronald Rompilla. In the second death row sentence overturned in as many weeks, the Court found that a defendant's [...]

The CEO of CardSystems Solutions Inc. , the corporation responsible for a security breach that may have left up to 40 million credit card owners vulnerable to credit card fraud and identity theft, said Monday that the data stolen was improperly kept and that the records should not have been retained. The files were being [...]

Two reformist newspapers in Iran have been banned after publishing a letter from defeated opposition candidate Mehdi Karoubi claiming the first round of presidential elections was rigged . The Aftab Daily and the Eghbal Daily, the newspaper of the main reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front , are both unsure whether the ban applies [...]

Ten men have gone to trial so far in Sudan on charges of rape and robbery in the troubled Darfur region , according to the head of Sudan's special court , which began proceedings last Saturday. The Sudanese court was formed by the national Sudanese government after the UN Security Council asked the International Criminal [...]

Court of First Instance President Bo Vesterdorf is planning to move the Microsoft EU antitrust case from the current panel headed by Judge Hubert Legal to a panel headed by himself. The proposed change comes after Judge Legal published an article in the French journal Concurrences in which he referred to some of the judges' [...]

Former President Bill Clinton said in a Financial Times interview published Monday that the US government should "close down or clean up" Guantanamo Bay prison . On the weekend leading GOP Senator John McCain also pressed for change if not closure, urging the United States to try the hundreds of detainees being held at the [...]

Medecins San Frontieres said Monday that the Sudanese government has dropped charges against two aid workers accused of publishing false information in a report detailing widespread rape in the volatile Darfur region. The group received word Sunday that the charges were dropped when a notice was issued by the Sudanese Justice Ministry stating that no [...]

A federal court in Burlington, Vermont is expected to hear opening statements Monday in the first death-penalty case in the state since 1957. Vermont does not have a death penalty but Donald Fell was charged under a federal capital murder law after abducting one of his victims, Terry King, in Vermont before later killing her [...]

With many predicting a retirement announcement from current Chief Justice William Rehnquist when the US Supreme Court's current term ends June 27, advisors to President Bush are said to be concentrating on three possible replacements: Judge John Roberts of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals , Judge J. Micheal Luttig of the US Fourth [...]