In Re: National Security Agency Telecommunication Records Litigation, US District Court for the Northern District of California, July 24, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Five opposition members in Ethiopia asked for pardons on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of attempting to overthrow the government. The five submitted a letter to High Court Judge Adil Ahmed saying that they did not wish to fight the cases against them and asking for a pardon of any crimes. Prosecutors in the [...]

The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of issuing contempt of Congress citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers . The citations now go to the full House, where representatives will decide whether to sanction the two for their refusal to comply with [...]

Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Ejehei said Wednesday that new arrests have been made in the conspiracy cases against Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , and Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh , a consultant with the Open Society Institute . Ejehei did not [...]

Australian Director of Public Prosecutions Damian Bugg said Wednesday that he is reviewing "all the available material" concerning UK terror suspect Dr. Mohammad Haneef as developments in the case warrant such a review. The Australian government has charged Haneef with providing "reckless material support" to the failed UK car bomb attack earlier this month. Haneef, [...]

An Italian judge Wednesday indicted approximately 20 former Parmalat SpA executives, including founder Calisto Tanzi and former CFO Fausto Tonna , for their role in the collapse of the Italian dairy giant. The defendants, who are being charged with fraudulent bankruptcy and criminal association, allegedly concealed the company's debt of 14 billion euros (approximately $19 [...]

Canada's Federal Court Wednesday ordered the government to publicly release previously censored portions of a report on Maher Arar , a Canadian citizen who was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where he was tortured. Justice Simon Noel, however, said that not all of the report should be disclosed, but that [...]

Carla Del Ponte , the top prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , called on Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to renew efforts to capture war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic in a statement released Wednesday marking the 12th anniversary of the indictment against the two men. [...]

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament Wednesday in a wide-ranging statement on security and counter-terrorism policy that new rules need to be implemented that allow police more time to question uncharged terror suspects. Brown argued that the current 28-day limit on detention without charge is not adequate in a post-9/11 world, and that the [...]

The UK Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) reported Wednesday that it has found no evidence of direct British involvement in the operation of extraordinary rendition flights through UK airspace and said that the United States' lack of regard for UK concerns in the "war on terror" has had "serious implication for the working of the [...]