Spokesmen for several of Iraq's religious minorites, including Chaldo/Assyrian Catholics , Iraqi Turkmen Muslims , and Mandaeans have expressed concern that new Iraqi constitution due out in a month may leave out any meaningful provisions...
AP is reporting that a US federal appeals court has ruled that Guantanamo detainees may be tried by military commissions. Read the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. JURIST's Paper Chase provides background...
The Pakistan government Friday asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to rule on a controversial Islamic law passed Thursday by the conservative Islamist legislature of the country's North West Frontier Province . President General...
At a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing Thursday, three top military lawyers said they had lodged complaints about the definition of torture put forth by the US Department of Justice and...
US Army Gen. Geoffrey Miller has made contradictory statements regarding his interactions with high-level Pentagon officials on the Abu Ghraib scandal, according to Friday's Chicago Tribune. In May 2004 Miller, a former Guantamao commander later transferred to...
Moazamm Begg , a UK national formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay, has told the Associated Press that rampant racism in Britain, a lack of assimilation in certain communities, anger over US involvement in Iraq and...
US District Court judge Jeffrey Miller has thrown out a lawsuit filed in March 2005 against the Associated Press and reporter Seth Hettena claiming that the news group violated privacy and copyright laws by publishing...
Brandon Mayfield , a Portland lawyer and Muslim convert, returns to a federal courthouse in Portland Friday for a pretrial hearing in his civil lawsuit against the US government. A little over a year ago...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that that US meatpackers can resume Canadian cattle importation, ending a two-year ban put in place after Canada discovered its...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Thursday condemned the 2001 Miami federal court conviction of five Cubans who spied on US anti-Castro groups , calling their long jail terms - including three...
