JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the overbearing terms imposed on Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in his recent military commission plea agreement are the product of an overly and unfairly coercive system and have further undermined America's moral authority in rule of law matters… The recent safe [...]
Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi said Saturday that his government will investigate Friday's UN reports detailing alleged rapes and disappearances carried out by militia soldiers in the Darfur region of Sudan at the end of 2006. Al-Mardi nonetheless complained about the allegations' lack of specificity, telling a news conference: "We always seem to get [...]
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will not be permitted to sell his story to the media, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Sunday. Though he has not been found to have violated any Australian law, Hicks will be subject to the nation's 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act , which forbids convicted criminals from profiting from [...]
Thousands marched through Los Angeles Saturday protesting President Bush's latest proposal to grant citizenship to the more than 12 million illegal immigrants in the US. The proposal floated last month would allow illegal immigrants to apply for work visas, but at the expiration of the visa, immigrants would be required to return to their home [...]
Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi has claimed that CIA operatives tortured him after he was kidnapped and detained in Iraq two months ago. According to Iranian state television Saturday, Sharafi, who was released last week, said CIA officials asked him about Iran's relationship with Iraq and various Iraqi groups and then tortured him when he said [...]
A US judge ruled Friday that an anti-Castro militant allegedly behind the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner should be released on bail, which was set at $350,000. Luis Posada Carriles , 78, a former CIA operative trained by the US for the failed anti-Castro Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, snuck into the Miami [...]
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Google Friday settled a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit which the French news agency filed two years ago against the Internet giant for automatically pulling and displaying photos, headlines and leads of news stories from the websites of AFP subscribers. The agreement will allow Google to post AFP content on its popular [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an emergency stay of an federal injunction Friday, hours after US District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virgina issued the partial order prohibiting leading Internet phone service Vonage from subscribing new customers. On March 8, a federal jury returned a verdict [...]
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang blasted a new human rights report released by the US Department of State as being inconsistent with "basic facts" Saturday, characterizing it as unsubstantiated and slanderous to the human rights conditions in China . The annual report on US efforts to support human rights and democracy abroad was delivered [...]
Monica M. Goodling , one of the key aides who took part in planning the firings of eight US Attorneys who was formerly on voluntary leave from her post as special counsel to the US Attorney General, submitted her resignation without cause Friday. Goodling's resignation, effective Saturday, is the third by a Department of Justice [...]
