A civil rights group has sued the state of Georgia , arguing that a new law designed to protect children from sex crimes all but forbids convicted offenders from living in urban and suburban areas. The Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a complaint on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a motion in support of Verizon's petition to consolidate over 20 cases in which the company must defend allegations that it illegally shared customer phone records with the National Security Agency in conjunction with the NSA's domestic spying program . The DOJ motion invokes national security [...]
Cuba and the United States exchanged barbs Tuesday over the US human rights record on the second day of the inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council official website; JURIST news archive] in Geneva, Switzerland. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Rogue accused the US of running a "concentration camp" at the US detention center [...]
For the first time in 20 years, a former government official is on trial for crimes committed during the Dirty War in Argentina . The trial of Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief investigator of the Buenos Aires province police, began Tuesday in La Plata, with the defendant refusing to testify. Etchecolatz told a panel [...]
In an effort to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the suicide of three Guantanamo Bay detainees , the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence in federal court late Monday on behalf of the father of detainee Salah Ali Abdullah Al-Salami. The motion asks the district court in Washington, [...]
A group of nurses filed four class-action lawsuits around the country Tuesday against multiple hospitals , alleging the hospitals violated antitrust laws by conspiring to keep wages low for nurses despite a national shortage of nurses. The four lawsuits – filed in Chicago, Illinois ; Memphis, Tennessee ; San Antonio, Texas ; and Albany, New [...]
A defense lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial was abducted and killed Wednesday, just two days after the prosecution presented their closing arguments in the trial, calling for the death penalty for Hussein and four of his co-defendants. Khamis al-Obeidi, a lawyer for both Hussein and his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, had chosen to continue living [...]
A Review of the FBI's Handling Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, released June 2006 . Read the full text of the report , including the now fully-unclassified version of Chapter 4 on the Moussaoui investigation in particular. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
CFC-A AO Detainee Operations: Report of Inspection, BG Charles H. Jacoby, June 25, 2004, declassified June 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Article 15-6 Investigation of CJSOTF-AP and 5th SF Groups Detention Operations, BG Richard B. Formica, November 8, 2004; declassified June 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
