The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a radio talk-show host's inflammatory remarks about a company which conducted interrogations for the US military at Abu Ghraib prison were protected under the First Amendment. In 2005, CACI International filed a defamation suit in federal district court against Randi Rhodes and her radio [...]
Spain's National Court agreed Tuesday to hear a suit filed by pro-Tibet advocacy groups alleging that seven Chinese officials committed acts of genocide in connection with China's attempts to suppress protests against Chinese rule in Tibet in March. The suit, filed July 7 by the Tibet House Foundation, Support Tibet Committee , and Tubten Wanghen [...]
Will Creeley : "Yesterday's Third Circuit ruling in DeJohn v. Temple University is a important victory for free speech on campus. In declaring Temple's former sexual harassment policy unconstitutionally broad, the Third Circuit delivered a reaffirmation of existing Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding the robust First Amendment rights enjoyed by students at our nation's public universities. [...]
The first woman scheduled to stand trial in the US on charges related to suspected al-Qaeda ties has been extradited to the US and appeared before the District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday on terrorism charges. Aafia Siddiqui , who comes from Pakistan, was charged with assault and the attempted murder [...]
The US State Department on Monday criticized Egypt's sentencing of Saad Eddin Ibrahim to two years in prison for defaming the country. Ibrahim has been a prominent human rights activist and outspoken critic of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak , and has dual US and Egyptian citizenship. He is a professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo and [...]
A South African judge on Tuesday delayed a ruling on whether to drop corruption charges against politician Jacob Zuma until September 12 in order consider Zuma's argument that he should have been consulted before the charges were filed. In December 2007, South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority served an indictment on Zuma, charging him with corruption, fraud, [...]
Meetings between Guantanamo Bay detainees and representatives of their governments may have been recorded, according to a Tuesday Washington Post report . In 2002 and 2003, the US State Department advised foreign delegations that their meetings would be videotaped despite public assertions by the US Department of Defense (DOD) that it did not regularly record [...]
Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr , said on Monday that he has filed three separate motions to dismiss the case against his client due to alleged government misconduct. In the first motion, Kuebler alleged that government policy encouraged interrogators to destroy notes that could have been used to [...]
The prosecution for the military commissions trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan moved Tuesday for the judge to recall the jury and issue new instructions on what constitutes a war crime. Prosecutors said that the instructions given by presiding judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred were flawed, but defense lawyers responded that if that were the case, [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday criticized proposed constitutional amendments put forth by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that would strip the country's High Court of the authority to investigate sitting legislators for alleged relationships with right-wing paramilitaries . The amendments would require that cases against current members of Congress first go to a local Bogota [...]
