A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Thursday that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) must stop monitoring phone calls between terrorism suspects and their lawyers and must erase any such calls that it accidentally records....
The UN General Assembly was divided Thursday over the the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality as 66 nations signed a statement calling for decriminalization, and nearly 60 nations signed an opposing statement. The representative from Argentina,...
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered the Pentagon to draft a proposal for shutting down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in preparation for a possible order from President-elect Barack...
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz said Thursday that the tribunal may not be able to meet the UN deadline of 2010 for completing its work. Brammertz said that...
An Italian court in Milan Thursday sentenced Parmalat SpA founder Calisto Tanzi to 10 years in prison for his role in the collapse of the Italian dairy giant. Tanzi is the first...
India's upper house of parliament the Rajya Sabha on Thursday approved two anti-terrorism bills in response to the recent Mumbai terror attacks . One bill, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment of 2008 (UAPA) will...
US President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named Mary Schapiro as the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . Schapiro is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Financial Industrial...
A jury at the Manchester Crown Court Thursday convicted a British Muslim suspected of al Qaeda involvement on charges of directing terrorism. Rangzieb Ahmed is the first person in the UK to be convicted of this crime under the...
A panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled Wednesday that there was no valid immunity deal between war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic [ICTY materials; ICTY backgrounder; JURIST news...
Russian civil rights activists Wednesday issued a statement warning that a proposed law that would change the definition of treason would allow the government to arrest any government critic . The proposed legislation extends the definition...
