Al Rawi, et al. v. The Security Service, et al., British High Court, November 18, 2009 [ruling that the government may withhold evidence from seven claimants suing UK intelligence services MI5 and MI6 for their roles in alleged torture at...

US Attorney General Eric Holder appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions regarding the decision to try five men accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks in...

The British High Court ruled Wednesday that the government may withhold evidence from seven claimants suing UK intelligence services MI5 and MI6 for their roles in alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an attempt to bar using federal funds to build or modify prisons in the US to hold detainees from Guantanamo Bay . By a mostly party-line 57-43 vote [roll...

Iraqi Sunni Arab Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on Wednesday announced his veto of the first article of the recently passed election law at a press conference in Baghdad. Hashemi said...

Virginia authorities on Tuesday executed a prisoner by electric chair , conducting the country's first execution by electrocution in over a year. Former Army counterintelligence worker Larry Bill Elliott, who was convicted of a 2001 double murder,...

An Iranian court has sentenced five people to death for their roles in protests that took place after this summer's disputed elections , according to state media Tuesday. Another 81 people have been sentenced to prison [Al-Jazeera...

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order Tuesday creating a Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to be headed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as lead agency. The task force, which continues the...

The China Beijing No 1 Intermediary Court ruled on Monday that US software giant Microsoft had infringed upon the patent rights of local Chinese company Zhongyi Electronic . Zhongyi Electronic provided Chinese fonts for Microsoft to...

US v. Sattar, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 17, 2009 [affirming the conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart for imprisoned then-client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with his terrorist and ordering her to begin...