The Secure Fence Act of 2006 providing for the construction of a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexico border is going up for a Senate floor vote as early as Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist...
Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) frequently makes arbitrary arrests, detains suspects without charges and abuses political dissidents, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report released Tuesday. The monitoring group found...
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith called on the US Saturday to close down Guantanamo Bay at an International Bar Association event in Chicago. While acknowledging that the September 11 attacks [JURIST news...
Losing leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador established a parallel government for Mexico Saturday representing what he called a "true, authentic republic" in the wake of a late-August...
Thousands of protestors took to the streets across South Africa Saturday demonstrating against same-sex marriage as South Africa's parliament prepares to hold hearings on a bill that would place same-sex partnerships on equal footing with traditional...
President Bush used his weekly radio address Saturday to reiterate his call to members of Congress to pass his proposed legislation on military commissions for...
A New York appeals court Thursday granted the request of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso to delay the trial in a civil lawsuit filed by the state over the $187.5 million compensation...
The investigating officer presiding over preliminary hearings for a US Marine accused of kidnapping and murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian has recommended that the Marine face court-martial on murder charges, the Marine's lawyer said Wednesday. US Marine...
Abdullah al-Amiri, the Shiite judge presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial , said in court Thursday that he did not believe Hussein should be called a dictator, just one day after the prosecution requested that al-Amiri...
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees face deportation and human rights abuses in Libya, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report released Wednesday. The monitoring group found that Libya has repatriated 145,000 foreigners...
