A federal judge Monday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman against a judge who asked her to remove her niqab in court. Ginnnah Muhammad had alleged that Illinois small claims Judge Paul Paruk said he had to see her face to gauge her veracity and threatened to dismiss her case if she [...]
Two former State Department officials lambasted the Bush administration for ineffectiveness in combating corruption in Iraq in a hearing Monday before the US Senate Democratic Policy Committee . Retired Associate Superior Court Judge Arthur Brennan, who was briefly Director of the Office of Accountability and Transparency (OAT) at the US Embassy in Baghdad, testified that [...]
A British civil lawsuit against members of the Real IRA alleged to have been involved with the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland opened in a Dublin court Monday. The trial, which began in the Belfast High Court in April, was moved to Dublin so that the High Court could hear evidence from law enforcement [...]
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has abandoned a 2007 plan to release approximately 22,000 "lower risk" prisoners who have less than 20 months of their sentences remaining, according to a Tuesday report in the Sacramento Bee. The proposal was intended to cut a multi-billion dollar deficit and alleviate severe prison overcrowding in California's prison system , [...]
Two Vietnamese journalists, Nguyen Van Hai of Tuoi Tre news agency and Nguyen Viet Chien of Thanh Nien news agency , were arrested Monday by Vietnamese authorities and charged with abuse of power in connection with their uncovering of the so-called PMU 18 corruption scandal . Project Management Unit 18 is a Vietnamese agency responsible [...]
Colombia Tuesday extradited 14 former militia leaders suspected of organizing violent massacres and drug smuggling operations to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. The guerrilla leaders had surrendered to Colombian authorities under a peace deal in which Colombian President Alvaro Uribe suspended warrants for their extradition, but Justice Minister Carlos Holguin told local [...]
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation began work at its new location in St. Petersburg Monday. The move from the Court's former home in Moscow began in February and is expected to be completed by May 21, with the Court's first session in its new home to take place the following day. RIA Novosti [...]
The Japanese House of Representatives , approved a bill Tuesday that would allow the country's space program to be used for defense purposes, including the development of spy satellites. A lower house committee approved the bill late last week. The new bill is expected to be approved by the House of Councillors , the upper [...]
Japanese authorities on Tuesday arrested five officials of Pacific Consultants International and its affiliate, Abandoned Chemical Weapons Disposal Corp. (ACWDC), for allegedly defrauding the Japanese government of $1.1 million in connection with a government program to remove abandoned chemical weapons left in China by Japanese troops at the end of World War II. ACWD has [...]
Khalid Sekander : "The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2006 that military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees were unconstitutional because they violated Common Article 3, Geneva Conventions, which states that detainees must be treated humanely and be afforded the same judicial guarantees "which are recognized as indispensable by civilized people." So earlier this month the [...]
