A Senegal appeals court ruled Friday that it was "not competent" to extradite former Chad president Hissene Habre to Belgium to face charges of crimes against humanity - including some alleged 40,000 executions and the torture of...
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy , widely seen as a leading candidate to replace President Jacques Chirac in 2007, is calling for new crime prevention legislation and affirmative action policies in the wake of widespread rioting ...
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye , charged last week with treason by civilian prosecutors, was taken before a Ugandan military court Thursday to answer additional charges of terrorism and illegal firearms possession. Besignye, who had been...
Clinic for Women, Inc. v. Carl J. Brizzi, Indiana Supreme Court, November 23, 2005 [upholding an Indiana law requiring women seeking an abortion in Indiana to undergo counseling about medical risks and abortion-alternatives and wait at least 18 hours after...
English Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has told British newspapers that ran a story on a leaked UK government document purportedly describing conversations in April 2004 between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President Bush over the Iraq war...
The National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, began debate Wednesday on a new anti-terror law said to have been partly prompted by the July 7 London bombings and the apparent...
Wire services are reporting that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been indicted on tax evasion and corruption charges, and has been put under house arrest pending trial.9:59 AM ET - The charges stem from an...
The US Department of Justice Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri, alleging that contrary to federal law it had failed to take steps to remove the names of deceased and otherwise ineligible voters from its electoral...
Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, November 20, 2005 [directing the transfer of custody of "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla, a US citizen, from the US Defense Department to the US Attorney General for the purpose of pursuing criminal charges against...
US v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, November 17, 2005 [indictment against alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla and others, charging Padilla with conspiracy to murder US nationals, conspiracy to provide...
