South African President Thabo Mbeki promised in his annual state of the nation address Friday to reduce crime by increasing the police force and reducing unemployment. South Africa has one of...
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously Friday that US citizen and suspected terrorist Shawqi Omar has a right to argue...
A North Carolina State Senator proposed a bill Thursday that will protect doctors who assist in executions from disciplinary actions. Senate Bill 114, filed by Republican State Senator Phil Berger , will shield health...
A French judge has charged two police officers connected to a case that sparked three weeks of rioting outside Paris and in other parts of France in 2005. The officers were charged Wednesday with non-assistance to...
The prosecutor in the genocide case against former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam announced Thursday that he is appealing last months sentence of life imprisonment , and will again push for the death...
US Defense Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson resigned Friday in the aftermath of a backlash to remarks he made in a radio interview last month criticizing lawyers...
A federal judge ruled Friday that the US Army Corps of Engineers can be sued by victims of Hurricane Katrina flood damage who allege the Corps ignored warnings that the Mississippi River-Gulf...
US Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that he intends to ask the Government Accountability Office to look into why Canadian citizen Maher Arar [advocacy website; JURIST...
Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem Ashqar, two of three men indicted in 2004 by a US federal grand jury on charges of engaging in a 15-year conspiracy of providing funds to Hamas , were found not...
The Eminent Jurists Panel (EJP) , an arm of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) , announced the results of an inquiry into Russian anti-terrorism efforts Thursday, concluding after two days of public hearings...
