A coalition of human rights groups in Zimbabwe said Wednesday that if human rights abuses continue to occur in Zimbabwe at the high pace they have in the first half of the year, 2007 will be the worst year on record since the country entered an economic decline seven years ago. The Zimbabwe Human Rights [...]

Egyptian officials on Wednesday arrested two lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood in order to question them in a case involving "other Brotherhood members," according to a police official speaking anonymously. The Brotherhood, banned from officially participating in Egyptian politics, denounced the "arbitrary" arrests : The MB Bloc sees the detention of both MPs as a [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Wednesday that former Qwest CEO Ralph Nacchio can remain free on bail pending his appeal of his insider trading conviction . Nacchio was convicted in April on 19 counts of insider training for illegally selling 1.33 million shares valued at $52 million dollars in conjunction [...]

Center for Biological Diversity v. Dr. William Brennan, US District Court for the Northern District of California, August 21, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Justice Department (DOJ) argued in court papers filed Tuesday that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Although most of the White House is exempt from FOIA, some internal offices are subject to the act and the Office of Administration has in the past [...]

The UK Ministry of Defence has refused to release key evidence about the abuse of Iraqi detainees held by British security forces, lawyers representing the detainees' families said Tuesday. The lawyers have requested that the UK High Court to issue a new order to compel the ministry to hand over documents about 11 Iraqi detainees, [...]

Cambodia's decision to transfer an investigating judge away from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) could lead to undue delays in bringing top members of the Khmer Rouge to trial, UN officials said Wednesday as they urged the Cambodian government to rethink the decision. Judge You Bun Leng was moved from the [...]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday rejected a call by the European Union to halt all executions in the state . In a statement , a spokesman for the governor said: 230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long [...]

The Bush administration violated US law by not producing a study on the effects of global warming, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Rejecting government arguments that it had discretion as to when to produce the reports, US District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong held that the Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that a research [...]

The interim government of Bangladesh imposed a curfew Wednesday after three days of student protests against the military-backed interim government resulted in hundreds of injuries and one death. The riots first began at the University of Dhaka , when students demanded that a military post be removed from the campus, and then spilled out into [...]