Backlogs at US immigration courts are up by more than 30 percent in the past 18 months, according to a Syracuse University research center study . The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse study found that the 4,145 cases...

The Russian Federation Council on Monday approved legislation that will allow the country's secret police, the Federal Security Service (FSB) , to question citizens about their actions related to crimes that have not yet...

The American Bar Association (ABA) has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the US District Court for the District of Arizona to block enforcement of the state's controversial new immigration law [SB 1070...

The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday issued a 90-day injunction against the enforcement of a law preventing the prosecution of 400 protesters arrested during the 2005 Gaza disengagement . The law, passed in January...

Former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and 15 other high ranking former officials in the government of Saddam Hussein appeared in court over the weekend and were charged with crimes committed...

The government of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced Monday that the two Guantanamo Bay detainees accepted by Germany earlier this month would be confined for at least a year while undergoing psychological treatment and integration...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has announced that insurance plans being offered as part of a new federally-funded program providing insurance to persons denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions will only...

A US military lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr announced Saturday that he will vigorously defend Khadr at his US military commission trial scheduled to begin next month [JURIST...

UK Immigration Minister Damian Green indicated in an interview Sunday that Britain's coalition government would not seek or support a British law banning the wearing of the Islamic burqa or other face coverings in...

The US Supreme Court on Friday declined to review the decision of a lower court permitting the government to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainee Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed to Algeria....