US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that he does not plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , despite requests by some in Congress. At a press briefing, Mukasey said the investigation was opened merely [...]
Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate said Friday that a European Union plan to archive and exchange air passenger data had general support among EU ministers and could take effect as early as 2009. Interior ministers from EU member countries discussed the Passenger Name Record (PNR) plan at a Friday conference in Slovenia, the current holder [...]
Pakistani lawyers demonstrated in Islamabad Thursday to protest the continued detention of ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry . The government of Pakistan has kept Chaudhry and several other judges and lawyers under preventative detention since President Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3. According to a CBC News report, a lawyer present [...]
Elizabeth Jordan : "Human Rights First does not consider the decrease in the number of political prisoners held in Cuba a reflection of a more favorable human rights environment on the island. In the spring of 2003, 75 men and women human rights defenders were imprisoned as part of a major crackdown on civil society. [...]
US District Judge Richard W. Roberts on Thursday ordered the government to submit a report to the court by February 14 detailing why the CIA destroyed videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , whether other evidence connected to a Guantanamo Bay detainee's lawsuit may have been destroyed, and what steps the government has taken [...]
The Mexican military has committed grave human rights abuses, including the torture, rape and murder of civilians, according to a report from the Mexican National Human Rights Commission submitted to the Mexican National Congress. According to Commission President Jorge Luis Soberanes Fernandez, the military committed these offenses while trying to combat drug-related crime committed by [...]
Executive Order: Further Amendment of Executive Order 11858 Concerning Foreign Investment in the United States, signed by George W. Bush, January 23, 2008 . Read the full text of the order. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Choose Life of Missouri, Inc., et al., v. Trish Vincent, et al., US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Western Division, January 23, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Bangladesh Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the extortion trial of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could continue, rejecting arguments by Hasina's lawyers that she could not be tried under the current state of emergency rules because the alleged crimes occurred before the national state of emergency was declared last January. Hasina was formally [...]
Paul Craig Roberts : "The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on US civil liberty that Bush and the DOJ justified in the name of "the war on terror." The government gave assurances that the draconian measures only apply to "terrorists." "Terrorist," [...]
