Two former administrators at a Texas juvenile prison were arrested Tuesday on 13 charges of improper sexual conduct with six students. Former West Texas State School principal John Paul Hernandez and former assistant superintendent Ray E. Brookins each resigned in 2005 as an investigation by Texas Rangers; the case has only recently moved forward as [...]

The government of Ethiopia admitted in a statement from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Tuesday that it had detained 41 terror suspects and granted foreign investigators access to the detainees for questioning. The admission came after Sweden, Canada, and Eritrea urged the country to reveal details regarding foreign nationals allegedly detained in secret prisons [...]

Europol , the EU law enforcement organization that handles criminal intelligence, presented its EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT 2007 to the European Parliament Tuesday, providing an overview of terrorism in the 27-member European Union . According to the report, 706 individuals were arrested in 15 member states on suspicion of terrorism offenses in [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a Bush administration plan to protect salmon and steelhead near hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) . Monday's unanimous decision by a three-judge panel affirmed decisions by an Oregon district court in 2005 and 2006 . [...]

Jordan demonstrated a poor human rights record in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday by the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) . The report singled out for particular criticism the country's controversial Terrorism Prevention Law, passed last year in response to the Amman hotel bombing that killed 57 people in 2005. The AOHR [...]

Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva Tuesday approved a law permitting abortions during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The Portuguese parliament passed the law last month after a February referendum on the issue failed due to low voter turnout . Approximately 60 percent of those who voted in the referendum supported a reform of the [...]

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine Tuesday delayed a scheduled hearing on the legality of an April 2 decree by President Viktor Yushchenko dissolving parliament and calling for new elections on May 27. Citing public threats against judges and political pressure, the court said it could not hear the claim on Wednesday, as previously planned, and [...]

JURIST has been recognized as an Official Honoree in the Law category in the 2007 Webby Awards . The 11th Annual "Webbys" received a record 8,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 US states. Only sites in the top 15 percent were deemed Official Honorees. This is the first time in the Webbys' [...]

President George W. Bush will sign off on a bill providing funding for studies on embryos incapable of further development, but will refuse to endorse legislation that would subsidize stem cell research , the White House announced Tuesday. The administration said in a formal policy statement sent to Congress that Bush would veto the Stem [...]

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled Tuesday that a British woman could not have frozen embryos conceived with a former partner implanted without his consent. Natallie Evans and Howard Johnston entered an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program in 2001 and Johnson agreed to the implantation of the [...]