US Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in a letter Monday that the State Secrets Protection Act currently before Congress, introduced by committee leaders to enact...

Jury selection began Wednesday for the UK trial of eight men accused of plotting to blow up US-bound jetliners over the Atlantic. In August 2006, prosecutors charged the eight with conspiracy to commit...

Re; Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States, Memorandum for William Haynes II, US Department of Justice, March 14, 2003 [memo by deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo finding that military interrogators could employ a wide...

An Egyptian prosecutor Wednesday appealed the six-month prison sentence handed down last week against a former editor of the weekly al-Dustour newspaper, insisting it was too lenient. Ibrahim Eissa was convicted...

One of two alleged leaders of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Wednesday denied involvement in a series of 2002 Bali night club bombings and other attacks...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) plans to file unspecified terrorism-related charges against one of two UK residents still remaining at Guantanamo Bay, US and British officials told the New York Times Wednesday. UK officials...

Seventeen states Wednesday filed a petition in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit seeking to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to comply with last year's Supreme Court ruling...

Human rights groups Tuesday filed an appeal of a March Federal Court of Canada ruling that the protections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms do not extend to...

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr have asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to reverse a military Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) determination that their client is an "enemy...

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine Tuesday issued a stay of all executions in the state until the US Supreme Court rules in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) , a case challenging the constitutionality of...