French judges have launched an investigation into torture allegations by a Palestinian doctor who was detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, a judicial official said Tuesday. Last year, Ashraf Jima Hajuj filed a lawsuit in France against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , relying on [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming on Tuesday granted the state an injunction prohibiting the National Forest Service (NFS) from enforcing a 2001 rule prohibiting the construction of roads and other developments in designated wilderness areas. Writing for the court, Judge Clarence Brimmer said that the rule violated both the [...]
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials accused of politicizing the hiring process will likely not face criminal prosecution, Attorney General Michael Mukasey told members of the American Bar Association on Tuesday. Mukasey criticized DOJ officials for considering political affiliation in assessing job applicants, but noted that employees hired under the politicized process were not necessarily [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Exxon Mobil owes interest on a punitive damages award entered against it for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill . In June, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 to reduce a punitive damages award to be paid by Exxon from $2.5 billion to $500 million, [...]
L. Ali Khan : "It is all but certain that Pervez Musharraf – America's hireling who ordered disappearances and murdered scores of innocent men, women, and children to appease the Bush Administration's unquenchable thirst for Muslim blood – will soon step down and relinquish a high seat of power that he had unlawfully occupied for [...]
The US Coast Guard on Wednesday resumed its investigatory hearings into a collision between a barge and a tanker which caused the spilling of approximately 400,000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River on July 23, resulting in the temporary closure of a 100-mile stretch of the waterway. Three foreign crew members from the Tintomara, [...]
JURIST] The office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the organization has found significant evidence that Indian peacekeeping troops have committed sex-crimes while stationed with the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) . The Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) began the investigation in May after receiving [...]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday reached a settlement agreement in a federal class action suit brought by two pro-immigration advocacy groups seeking to force the government to rule on the naturalization applications of over 350 immigrants living in Washington state. The settlement, still subject to approval by a US district court [...]
Aung Din : "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since May 30, 2003, under Article 10 (B) of the "State Protection Act 1975." This Act was promulgated by the General Ne Win's so-called Socialist government in 1975, and designed to arrest anyone who challenge single party rule. Article 10 (A) of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration which was brought by Valerie Plame , the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal . The appellate court found that the officials who [...]
