Polish prosecutors said Tuesday that they are preparing charges against General Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last Communist leader of Poland, in connection with his December 13, 1981 declaration of martial law in the country. Prosecutors...
Letter to certain US Senate Judiciary Committee members concerning the conference report on Patriot Act renewal legislation, Senator Arlen Specter, December 12, 2005. Read the full text of the letter....
Statement of Decision denying clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, December 12, 2005 . Read the full statement of decision . Reported...
AP is reporting that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to grant clemency to Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams , set to be executed just after midnight tonight. In denying clemency,...
German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis Monday submitted a new report to the UN Security Council on the February bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , including additional evidence of Syrian involvement in the murder. Mehlis...
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , currently a member of the defense team representing deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has said that Hussein is being poorly treated in detention, kept in isolation and forced to go...
AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that FEMA cannot end its hotel accommodation program for hurricane refugees until Feb. 7, one month later than the agency had planned. Lawyers for Katrina victims launched a lawsuit [JURIST...
The Prosecutor v. Ante Gotovina, Amended Indictment, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, February 19, 2004 . Read the full text of the indictment ....
A special high-security war crimes court sitting in Belgrade Monday convicted 14 former members of Serb militias for killing some 200 Croatian POWs and wounded at a pig farm near Vukovar in 1991 at the end of...
The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari in four consolidated cases concerning a 2003 Texas electoral redistricting plan strongly supported by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay that effectively reduced the number of Democratic US Representatives from...
