The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a list of secret government surveillance operations focusing on war protestors and other political activists in northern and central California from September 2001 through July 2006 [timeline,...
The Washington Supreme Court official website] ruled 7-2 Thursday that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) must release files documenting sexual abuse allegations compiled over decades for use in an upcoming lawsuit brought by three...
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that statements made by two partners at accountancy firm KPMG cannot be used in their upcoming trial because federal prosecutors coerced the two defendants into cooperating with...
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) , the country's highest criminal prosecution body, has issued new regulations outlining 42 offenses constituting abuses of authority in a bid to prevent torture of criminal suspects and other...
A Texas jury Wednesday found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity of drowning her five children in 2001. Yates will now be committed to a Texas mental hospital and will undergo periodic hearings to determine...
US Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said Tuesday that arrests of people trying to cross the border illegally have dropped by 45 percent in the two months since President Bush announced a...
Missouri's revised plan for conducting executions by lethal injection fails to ensure that executions do not cause unconstitutional pain and suffering, according to US District Judge Fernando Gaitan , who halted all executions in the...
Israel has denied using banned cluster munitions in Lebanon. On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using the cluster grenades in an attack on a Hezbollah village in...
Saddam Hussein attended trial proceedings Wednesday for the first time since the prosecution called for the death penalty during closing arguments in June. In a statement to Presiding Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , Hussein...
The Bush administration has begun circulating a draft bill to authorize military trials for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , according to a report in Wednesday's New York Times. The draft bill, written by...
