The Pakistani government offered to reinstate all superior court judges sacked under emergency rule except for ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry but the deposed judges rejected the proposal, according to a report in the Pakistani...
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Ousted Pakistan judges reject government offer to reinstate all but CJ: report
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Khadr judge orders military commission witness identities withheld: NYT
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UN rights experts concerned over proposed Venezuela constitutional reforms
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Countries pledge to increase efforts to protect journalists in armed conflicts
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Federal judge rejects challenge to Virginia county immigration measures
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Canada-US refugee agreement ruling [Canada FC]
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Federal DNA database ruling [9th Circuit]
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US Senate Judiciary chair urges independent judiciary for Pakistan
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Spain arrests at least 40 awaiting sentence in ETA support trial
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Denmark rejects US request to take Guantanamo detainees
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US military judge Col. Peter Brownback has issued a blanket order protecting the identities of prosecution witnesses in the military commission trial of Omar Khadr , the New York Times reported Saturday. The order, originally...
Three United Nations human rights experts joined together Friday to voice their distress over the effect planned constitutional reforms in Venezuela may have on civil liberties and the rule of law in the country. Ambeyi Ligabo, Special...
Seven countries on Friday committed to new efforts to protect journalists and their crews in armed conflicts following the conclusion of a meeting in Switzerland of the 194 signatories of the Geneva Conventions. The 30th International Conference of the...
US District Judge James Cacheris of the Eastern District of Virginia Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging measures adopted by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors that required local police to...
Canadian Council for Refugees et al. v. The Queen, Federal Court of Canada, November 29, 2007 [striking down a refugee agreement between Canada and the US, asserting that the US does not meet international refugee protection requirements or respect international...
US v. Thomas Kriesel Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . Read the full text of...
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Friday praised Pakistan's lawyers for standing up for the rule of law and emphasized the county's need for an independent judiciary as a guard against overreaching executive power. In...
Spanish police Friday arrested at least 40 of 56 defendants accused of supporting Basque separatist group ETA in 2005, according to a court official cited by AP. Forty-six found guilty of belonging to various organizations...
Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Per Stig Moeller said Friday that Denmark has rejected a US request to accept the transfer of several detainees from Guantanamo Bay . Moeller said that the detainees could be...
