The Manila Daily Tribune reported Saturday that it has been charged with sedition in the wake of the Friday lifting of President Gloria Arroyo's state of emergency . The offices of the paper,...
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian told the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun daily in an interview reported Saturday that he was resolved to drafting a new constitution for the country better suited to its current circumstances. Earlier in...
An Ecuadorian judge Friday ordered the release from prison of former president Lucio Gutierrez , ruling that he was not a threat to national security. Ecuador's Attorney General's office has already said it will appeal. Gutierrez was arrested...
Reprocessed Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) and Administrative Review Board (ARB) Documents, US Department of Defense, released March 3, 2006 [unredacted documents of proceedings before Guantanamo military review panels released under court order after a FOIA suit by the Associated...
Balvir Singh Multani and Balvir Singh Multani, in his capacity as tutor to his minor son Gurbaj Singh Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys and Attorney General of Quebec, Supreme Court of Canada, March 2, 2006 [unanimously overturning a Quebec school...
Letter from US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to Senator Arlen Specter, February 28, 2006 [providing responses to several questions at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority," held Monday, February...
Canadian Federal Court judge Marshall Rothstein was formally appointed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Wednesday two days after appearing before a committee of Canadian parliamentarians in the first public questioning...
Ranking US Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Patrick Leahy rapped Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday after Gonzales sent a letter to Judiciary Committee members purporting to offer clarifications of his testimony last month on the...
Secretary General's report under Article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts, notably by or at the instigation of foreign agencies, Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, March...
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc., et al. v. Jeremiah W. Nixon, et al, Supreme Court of Missouri, February 28, 2006 [upholding the state's 24-hour informed consent abortion law on the grounds that it...
