A Turkish court on Friday lifted a ban on YouTube two days after the court banned the popular video-sharing website . The court had ordered telecom providers in the country to block access because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . It is unclear why the court lifted the [...]
The Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament , voted Saturday to approve a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups that allegedly committed war crimes . The resolution, revised by President Hamid Karzai , bars the state from independently prosecuting individuals for war crimes absent accusation from an alleged victim. [...]
Top US Justice Department officials moved quickly Friday to acknowledge fault and apologize for illegal activities after a sharply critical DOJ inspector general's report on Patriot Act investigative practices revealed that the FBI broke and misused laws in the process of obtaining personal information from telephone companies, internet service providers, banks, credit bureaus and other [...]
A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters, US Department of Justice, March 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Swiss court Friday convicted Turkish Workers Party leader Dogu Perincek for denying that the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I constituted genocide . The Swiss canton of Vaud , where Perincek made the denial in a 2005 speech, passed a law in 2003 criminalizing the denial of genocide as racial [...]
US military hearings on whether 14 top terror suspects formerly held in CIA secret prisons qualify as "enemy combatants" began Friday at Guantanamo Bay . Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) will determine the status of Abu Zubaydah , Ramzi bin al-Shibh , Riduan Isamuddin , and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the alleged mastermind of the [...]
The Cambodian government uses systematic human rights and civil liberty violations to maintain its hold on power, according to a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai and obtained by AFP. The report listed illegal land grabs, torture while in police custody, corruption among senior government officials, and a steadfast government opposition to democracy [...]
Ugandan judges Friday agreed to call off a strike after President Yoweri Museveni wrote a letter to the judiciary, expressing regret for a March 1 siege of the Ugandan High Court . The judges went on strike Monday to protest the incident, in which state security agents surrounded the courthouse and rearrested six defendants who [...]
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday invoked the Second Amendment to reverse a lower court ruling and strike down a three-decades old ban on individuals in the District of Columbia having handguns in their homes. The 2-1 ruling is likely to be appealed to the US Supreme Court. The Second Amendment to the [...]
A federal judge in Argentina Thursday ordered former president Reynaldo Bignone arrested for his alleged role in disappearances and human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War". Judge Alberto Suarez Araujo ordered Bignone's arrest as part of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses that occurred at secret detention centers in Buenos Aires during the [...]
