Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) was released from federal prison Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that he was not a flight risk while his appeal of his fraud and bribery conviction is pending. The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit made the ruling Thursday, which coincided with a request from [...]
Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy on Friday asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse a federal judge's decision to impose sanctions against her for refusing to disclose government sources who provided information about former US Army germ-warfare researcher Dr. Steven J. Hatfill . In a ruling earlier [...]
Malaysia's opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) on Saturday denounced the government's refusal to release five prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force, including M. Manoharan who was recently elected to the state legislature. The five were arrested in December for allegedly orchestrating a November street demonstration by thousands of the nation's ethnic Indians in [...]
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen born in Germany, detailed his allegations that he was tortured while in US custody in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay in a new interview to air Sunday on CBS' 60 Minutes. Kurnaz told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that he was exposed to extreme temperatures, [...]
European Union (Amendment) Bill and the Lisbon Treaty: Implications for the UK Constitution, UK House of Lords Constitution Committee, March 28, 2008 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Tenth report of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005), 1636 (2005), 1644 (2005), 1686 (2006), and 1748 (2007), March 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Both houses of the UK parliament should approve any UK government proposal to opt-in or opt-out of certain policy provisions of the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon , the UK House of Lords Constitution Committee concluded Friday in a 124-page report on the implications of the treaty for the [...]
A criminal network may have been responsible for the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) said Friday. In a press briefing on its latest report , the IIIC said that this network continued to operate after the assassination and may be involved with other [...]
Executive Order 08-01: Illegal Immigration Control Order, Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri, March 27, 2008 . Read the full text of the executive order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned a film made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders that criticizes the Koran, calling it "offensively anti-Islamic." In a statement , Ban said: I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of Geert Wilders' offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. [...]
