The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report Monday absolving the FBI of charges that agents conducted investigations of domestic groups based on their exercise of First Amendment rights. The report criticizes the FBI for beginning investigations on weak factual predicates, continuing investigations longer than necessary, inappropriately retaining [...]

The Malaysian Court of Appeals on Monday dismissed an appeal by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s refusal to throw out the sodomy charges against him based on allegations that his accuser had an affair with the prosecutor. A three-man panel ruled that, under Section 3 of the Court of Judicature [...]

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao emphasized the importance of upholding the rule of law, combating corruption and improving transparency in a speech published by the government Sunday. During the speech, delivered last month at a national conference on government administration, Wen explained that the proper adherence to the rule of law is an important step [...]

A man found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 1985 Air India bombings was found guilty Saturday of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted for his role in the 1985 terrorist attacks where bombs were planted in suitcases aboard airplanes leaving Vancouver. One bomb went off in Japan’s Narita airport, killing [...]

A judge from Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran on Saturday sentenced Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election , to six years in prison. Ahari was sentenced to three-and-half-years for warring against God, known in Islamic law as Moharebeh, two years for conspiracy to commit a crime and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday heard oral arguments in the appeal of a district court ruling that ordered the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Olud Slahi . The three-judge panel indicated that it is inclined to order that the case be reconsidered , also suggesting that [...]

Supporters of Proposition 8 , California’s ban on same-sex marriage , filed a brief Friday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit requesting to proceed with an appeal. The brief seeks standing to argue the appeal following a ruling earlier this month that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown are [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that a US scientist and his wife have been indicted for conspiring to sell nuclear weapons information to an individual they believed worked for the Venezuelan government. Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Mascheroni, were arrested Friday by the FBI and appeared before the US District [...]

Judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday upheld a verdict in favor of Royal Dutch Shell PLC in a case brought by families of Nigerian protesters who were executed by the previous Nigerian government in 1995 for speaking out against the oil company. The court ruled that the Alien [...]

A Rwandan court on Friday sentenced opposition leader Deogratias Mushayidi to life in prison for recruiting rebels and trying to incite violence against the government of current Rwandan President Paul Kagame . Mushayidi was also given two additional lesser sentences for a fraudulent passport and for spreading rumors to incite civil disobedience. He has denied [...]