New York-based human rights Human Rights Watch warned Friday that the McCain Amendment prohibiting the cruel and inhumane treatment of US-held detainees that was finally endorsed Thursday by a reluctant Bush administration could yet be...
Sixteen key sections of the Patriot Act came closer to year-end expiration Friday as the Republican leadership in the US Senate failed to get the votes of three-fifths of the...
The French Senate has approved a slightly amended version of a new anti-terror law providing for increased public video surveillance, more access by authorities to communications records and passenger information, and new...
The British government has announced that it will appeal a High Court ruling earlier this week that found Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks eligible for British citizenship. Hicks, whose mother is British...
Serge Brammertz , a Belgian prosecutor who is currently the deputy prosecutor for the International Criminal Court at The Hague, appears set to replace German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis as head of the UN...
An Australian court hearing a bail application by Australian Muslims detained in a major November anti-terror sweep was told by prosecutors Friday that two of the suspects had discussed assassinating Australian Prime Minister John Howard, killing police...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke said Thursday that he was dropping a contentious provision in proposed new UK anti-terrorism legislation introduced in the wake of the July London bombings that would have permited...
USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005, HR 3199, passed by the US House of Representatives December 14, 2005. Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
The Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milsoevic, Decision in Relation to Severance, Extension of Time, and Rest, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, December 12, 2005 (released December 13, 2005) [deciding not to sever proceedings in the Slobodan Milosevic trial so...
Hicks v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court, Mr. Justice Collins, December 13, 2005 [ruling that David Hicks, the Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay for over...
