A Spanish prosecutor on Tuesday filed an anticipated request before the Supreme Court of Spain to ban two Basque political parties for alleged ties to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement. Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has said the government has evidence that both the Basque Nationalist Action Party [...]
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said in a Tuesday letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had completed his investigation into CIA interrogation methods used on terror suspects, finding the agency's current methods to be legal. In the letter to Senator Patrick Leahy , Mukasey again refused to characterize waterboarding as [...]
Executive Order: Protecting American Taxpayers from Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks, White House, January 29, 2008 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Promusicae v. Telefonica de Espana, European Court of Justice, January 29, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Letter from Attorney General Michael Mukasey to chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy, January 29, 2008 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US House of Representatives Tuesday voted to extend the Protect America Act of 2007 for an additional two weeks past its original February 1 expiration date. The extension was passed as a last-minute compromise between House Democrats and Republicans to give the Senate time to pass new surveillance legislation that Republicans hope will include [...]
The Portuguese government helped in the rendition of more than 700 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay by allowing the US to use Portuguese territory and airspace, a British prisoner rights group reported Tuesday. Reprieve said that 728 out of the 774 prisoners processed at Guantanamo came through Portuguese jurisdiction and that a significant number were tortured [...]
An influential UK Conservative Party donor has launched a legal effort to force the UK government to put the ratification of the new EU reform treaty properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon to a public vote, the BBC reported Tuesday. Stuart Wheeler argues that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has broken a pledge to hold [...]
Hate crimes in Russia rose 13 percent in 2007 over 2006, but police have done little to stop attacks, according to a Tuesday report by the SOVA Center rights group. Deputy Director Galina Kozhevnikova told reporters that race-related crime resulted in 67 deaths and 550 injuries in 2007, with African students, Asian visitors, and anti-Nazi [...]
A bill to lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in universities was submitted Tuesday to the Turkish Grand National Assembly amidst protests by secular groups. Last week, an agreement between Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party and key opponent Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) propelled the bill forward after decades of strict enforcement of the [...]
