The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that two more detainees have been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Abd-al-Nisr Mohammed Khantumani was released to Cape Verde, while Abdul Aziz...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday granted a request for bail by Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black . The court granted bail following last month's ruling [opinion, PDF;...
The National Security Services in Sudan (NISS) are brutally suppressing internal dissent and targeting rights workers in the process, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report issued Monday. AI documented cases of arbitrary...
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court announced Monday that an agreement with the US, allowing Swiss bank UBS to disclose account information of clients suspected by the...
The Russian Federation Council on Monday approved legislation that will allow the country's secret police, the Federal Security Service (FSB) , to question citizens about their actions related to crimes that have not yet...
Former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and 15 other high ranking former officials in the government of Saddam Hussein appeared in court over the weekend and were charged with crimes committed...
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has announced that insurance plans being offered as part of a new federally-funded program providing insurance to persons denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions will only...
A US military lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr announced Saturday that he will vigorously defend Khadr at his US military commission trial scheduled to begin next month [JURIST...
UK Immigration Minister Damian Green indicated in an interview Sunday that Britain's coalition government would not seek or support a British law banning the wearing of the Islamic burqa or other face coverings in...
New York Governor David Paterson (D) signed a bill Friday prohibiting the retention of personal information of individuals detained New York City police during a "stop and frisk" but ultimately not charged with a crime....
