The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Monday criticized procedures used by the UN Security Council and the European Union for blacklisting individuals and organizations on its terror list, adopting a draft report by parliamentarian...
Australian prosecutors dismissed a terrorist training charge against Izhar Ul-Haque Monday after the New South Wales Supreme Court found that two officials belonging to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) had violated his rights by...
A Chadian prosecutor Monday questioned Europeans detained for attempting to airlift 103 children from Chad, including three Spanish flight crew members and five workers from the French charity Zoe's Ark ....
The Federal Court of Canada ruled Monday that Amnesty International and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association should be granted public interest standing to seek judicial review of the actions or potential actions of Canadian...
The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled Monday that the Zimbabwean government can legally expropriate the agricultural equipment of white farmers under the Acquisition of Farm Equipment Act , finding that the government expropriated the equipment with the public...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Monday criticized the weekend imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan, saying that she was "alarmed by the suspension of fundamental rights" in the...
The US House Judiciary Committee submitted a report Monday to the House clerk accusing White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House legal counsel Harriet Miers of contempt for repeatedly...
A suspect implicated in the July, 21 2005 failed bomb attacks on London's subway and bus systems pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to six years and nine months imprisonment. Adel Yahya, who had previously been...
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) Tuesday failed to reach a consensus on new anti-terror legislation necessary to extend Japan's support mission for US operations in the Indian Ocean....
The Constitutional Court of Indonesia rejected an appeal by five convicted drug smugglers against the death penalty Tuesday, ruling that capital punishment did not violate the Indonesian constitution . Lawyers representing the five had argued that the...
