Guantanamo Bay detainee Djamel Ameziane Wednesday filed a complaint against the US with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) , alleging that he had been tortured, given inadequate...
Salim Ahmed Hamdan was sentenced Thursday to five and a half years in prison following his conviction Wednesday of providing material support for terrorism through his association...
Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Thursday signed into law a new constitution for the country, providing for multi-party elections, an independent judiciary, and a more powerful legislature. The constitution also provides a...
Howard Berman (D-CA), Chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee , released a letter obtained by JURIST on Thursday in which he urged the Bush administration to postpone an international nuclear trade deal with India...
Iran has commuted the sentences of four people scheduled to be executed by stoning and has suspended the use of the punishment, local media reported Wednesday. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the head of the country's judiciary, had originally placed a...
The state of Texas executed Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday evening after the US Supreme Court narrowly refused to stay his sentence . Medellin's appeal was based on a...
The US State Department on Monday criticized Egypt's sentencing of Saad Eddin Ibrahim to two years in prison for defaming the country. Ibrahim has been a prominent human rights activist and outspoken critic of...
Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr , said on Monday that he has filed three separate motions to dismiss the case against his client due to alleged government misconduct....
US President George Bush on Monday signed into law the Libyan Claims Resolution Act , which allows the Secretary of State to settle remaining civil claims brought by US citizens against Libya for bombings allegedly carried out...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held on Monday that federal courts must rule on an international petition for child repatriation unless a state court has already fully considered and ruled on...
