US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday appointed retired Navy Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald as the convening authority for military commissions . Considered an expert in military law, MacDonald's experience as...

US Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would appeal a judge's order to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of involvement in the 9/11 World Trade Center...

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe agreed at belated International Women's Day Celebrations on Friday that gay rights should not be constitutionally protected . While...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday adopted a resolution condemning Myanmar for rights violations and urging the ruling junta to conduct fair and free elections. The UNHRC also extended the mandate...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Thursday sentenced a computer hacker to 20 years in prison for his role in the one of the largest identity theft...

Dick Anthony Heller, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 26, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper...

SpeechNow.org, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, March 26, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest...

The Indonesian Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a controversial anti-pornography law. The law was purportedly designed to protect younger generations from pornographic and lewd materials....

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office on Friday banned Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf , finding it in violation of laws against extremism. The step was taken pursuant to Article I...

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning religious defamation . The non-binding resolution, proposed by Pakistan, passed with a vote of 20-17 , with eight abstentions. The resolution...