International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officials said on Friday that the US has once again refused to grant the watchdog access to terror detainees held in covert prisons following discussions between ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger and top White House officials in Washington and Kellenberger on Friday deplored the lack of progress on the [...]
Zacarias Moussaoui , the convicted Sept. 11 conspirator, was spared the death penalty by a single member of the jury who remained anonymous throughout the deliberations, according to an article in Friday's Washington Post. The inside information was provided by the jury foreman, a Virginia math teacher speaking on condition of anonymity, who revealed that [...]
Bancoult, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs EWHC 1038, UK High Court of Justice, Divisional Court, May 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
S & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWHC 1111 (Admin), UK High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court, Mr. Justice Sullivan, May 10, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour on Thursday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) act more aggressively in prosecuting those suspected of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region shortly after her return from a visit there. Although the UN Security Council has granted the ICC the authority to prosecute suspected war crimes in Darfur [...]
Pope Benedict on Thursday explicitly condemned same-sex marriage or any legal recognition of same-sex couples as Italy's new center-left government prepared to take office as early as next Wednesday. His statement echoed a speech he gave last year in which he described such departures from traditional families as "anarchical freedom." The Pope's statements drew immediate [...]
The UK High Court on Thursday ruled that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians must be allowed to return to the group of islands from which they were exiled in the 1960s in order to make way for the Diego Garcia naval base . Overall roughly 2,000 Chagossians were removed after [...]
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported Thursday that an Italian policeman has confessed to participating in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from the streets of Milan. The Italian government responded by denying any involvement in the abduction, and prosecutors say the Italian government is not under investigation. Last December, an Italian judge issued [...]
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 10-8 along party lines to send the circuit court nomination of White House aide Brett Kavanaugh to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. Kavanaugh, who has been nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, faced probing questions from committee members during a [...]
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Thursday announced a bipartisan agreement to resume debate next week on immigration reform, which also covers the 14 Republicans and 12 Democrats who will negotiate a compromise proposal with the House of Representatives. Last December, the House passed the Border [...]
