A federal judge dismissed the indictment against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, holding that the government purposefully manipulated Carriles' statement in order to charge him with lying to immigration authorities. The government alleged that Carriles confessed to illegally crossing the Mexican border, but US District Judge Kathleen Cardone held that the interpretation of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday denied a request by the city government of Washington, DC for an en banc rehearing of the court's March decision invalidating the city's handgun ban . DC Mayor Adrian Fenty expressed disappointment with the decision, saying that "The District's gun control laws have been a [...]
With Serbia poised to assume the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe this week, several human rights groups have spoken out against the country's new role, asserting that a country in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention should not be allowed to lead the European human rights watchdog. In February, the International Court of [...]
The Administrative Court in Egypt ruled Tuesday that a presidential order that forty top members of the Muslim Brotherhood be tried before a military court was invalid, holding that the members must be tried instead in civilian court. According to a statement from the Muslim Brotherhood, the decision was a "historic ruling" as it was [...]
Jury selection concluded Tuesday in the terrorism trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants. Prosecutors have accused the defense of trying to exclude all white and Hispanic men from the jury, while the defense accused prosecutors of excluding any person with ties to Islam. US District Judge Marcia Cooke , however, determined that neither side [...]
Tennessee executed its first death row inmate Wednesday after a moratorium on executions imposed by the governor in February expired earlier this month. Philip Workman's execution had been postponed five times, and last minute appeals by his lawyers arguing that lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and that the state's new lethal injection protocols [...]
Scotland Yard arrested four suspects in London on Wednesday in connection with the London transit bombings on July 7, 2005 that left 52 people dead. Police arrested Mohammed Sidique Khan, Mohammed Shakil, Sadeer Saleem, and Waheed Ali on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 [...]
Russian officials have harassed human rights defense lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and are attempting to disbar her after Moskalenko filed complaints with the European Court of Human Rights over alleged rights violations by the Russian government, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights said Tuesday. IHF is asking Russian authorities to end the harassment . IHF [...]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that it will continue to move forward with implementation of the REAL ID Act , despite opposition among state legislatures and in the US Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee met on Tuesday to hear testimony on privacy and civil liberties Concerns with the law, the same [...]
Jury selection is expected to begin Wednesday in the court-martial of US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Espionage Act with leaking secret national defense information to a person outside the government in connection with allegedly passing then-undisclosed names of Guantanamo detainees to a lawyer [...]
