The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa will charge Jackie Selebi , chief of the South African Police Services (SAPS) and President of INTERPOL , with corruption and defeating the course of justice, a NPA spokesman said Friday. Selebi's charges relate to payments he received from a his friend Glenn Agliotti , a convicted [...]

Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into a survivor organization formed after the 2004 Beslan school siege , according to the organization's chairwoman, quoted by AP Friday. The Voice of Beslan , is accused of extremist activity . Prosecutors point to a 2005 Voice of Beslan statement criticizing Russian President Vladamir Putin as evidence [...]

REAL ID Final Rule, US Department of Homeland Security, January 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the final rule. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in four cases , including Davis v. Federal Election Commission (07-320) , in which the Court will consider whether the so-called millionaire's amendment , part of a 2002 campaign finance law that allows political candidates to accept larger contributions from supporters if an opponent is able to [...]

A federal jury in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Friday convicted three former leaders of defunct Muslim charity Care International Inc. (not to be confused with CARE ) were convicted Friday of illegally obtaining tax-exempt status by hiding the group's pro-jihad activities. Care International Inc. purported to help war orphans, widows, [...]

Seventy-one people were arrested at the US Supreme Court Friday during a protest calling for the closing of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . Protesters were arrested inside and outside the building and charged with violating an ordinance that bars demonstrations of any kind on court grounds. The court building had to [...]

The ACLU of Michigan filed a federal suit Friday challenging a Michigan election law that limits access to information on presidential primary voters to the Democratic and Republican parties. The complaint alleges that Section 615c of the Michigan Election Law is unconstitutional because it excludes other smaller parties, as well as individuals, citizen groups and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that four former Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to sue high-ranking government officials for alleged torture and infringement of religious practice during their captivity. UK citizens Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal Al-Harith filed the lawsuit in [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday issued a final rule establishing new minimum standards for state-issued identification cards under the Real ID Act . DHS will phase in the heightened requirements between 2011 and 2017. Opponents of the Real ID Act have expressed privacy and civil liberties concerns, objecting to the sharing of [...]

Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) , Friday called for three days of protests over the disputed re-election of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki . More than 500 people have already died in violent demonstrations since Kibaki's re-election at the end of December. A spokesman for ODM said that the call for rallies [...]