The son of a top Iraqi judge was killed by gunmen Saturday and his body dumped in the mostly Sunni Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah. Twenty-two year old Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud was himself a lawyer and died along with two bodyguards. His father, Midhat al-Mahmoud, is the Shiite leader of the Higher Judicial Council, the supervisory [...]
September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has appealed both his life sentence on conspiracy charges and US District Judge Leonie Brinkema's decision to deny his motion to withdraw his guilty plea and grant a new trial. Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month at the conclusion of a two-month sentencing trial . He [...]
A Russian court in Tatarstan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees and another man to between 11 and 15 years in prison for their involvement in a January 2005 gas pipeline explosion on the Volga River. The three had been acquitted in September 2005, but the Supreme Court dismissed the verdict and ordered a [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court in Washington for a two-year extension of a Microsoft antitrust order because the software giant has been slow to supply proper technical documentation to the licensees of its communications protocols. The remedial settlement between Microsoft, the DOJ, and nine states, approved in 2002 , [...]
Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi v. George Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmett Sullivan, May 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda to build car bomb detonators in Pakistan and send them to Afghanistan. US District Judge Emmett Sullivan froze the [...]
A new report by the Irish Human Rights Commission released Friday has found that Ireland may be in breach of international human rights laws because the country does not currently recognize same-sex marriages . The Rights of De Facto Couples report notes that Ireland gives more rights to married couples than to gay couples or [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday that the Virginia home and office of former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo were searched as part of an investigation into Foggo's possible involvement in a congressional bribery scheme. Foggo is being investigated by the FBI, the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , [...]
Telecommunications company Qwest on Friday explained its decision to deny the National Security Agency (NSA) access to its customers' telephone records in contrast to competitors AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth which allowed that. According to a company lawyer, former Qwest CEO Joseph N. Nacchio concluded that "the requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act [...]
Members of a European Union delegation currently in the US to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe for the European Parliament have complained about non-cooperation by US State Department officials after a meeting to discuss alleged renditions . Claudio Fava , who will write the final European Parliament report, said US officials gave [...]
