European and US envoys meeting in Paris Tuesday discussed a new UN Security Council resolution that would invoke Chapter 7 of the UN Charter in another effort to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment. The Council directed Iran to stop enrichment in a resolution in late March, but the measure was technically non-binding. A Chapter [...]
Documents regarding the treatment of US-held detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, released to the public by the ACLU on May 2, 2006 pursuant to a FOIA request [showing that US officials had knowledge of reports of abuse at detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan before photos from Abu Ghraib prison first surfaced. Read [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday released new US Army documents it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act action purportedly showing that officials had knowledge of reports of abuse at detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan before photos from Abu Ghraib prison first surfaced. Among the documents was an information paper titled "Allegations [...]
No proof exists that the CIA used secret prisons in eastern Europe for terror suspects, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Tuesday. Solana, the high representative for common foreign and security policy in the EU, also told the European Parliament that he lacked the power to investigate the rendition allegations, which first surfaced in [...]
The dominant Sunni Arab political party Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) on Tuesday called for a leading role on a legislative committee that will consider possible amendments to the Iraqi constitution in upcoming months. Senior IAF official Iyad al-Samarrai said the IAF should lead the committee because the party had demanded the opportunity to amend the [...]
Ten states sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday over new fuel economy standards the agency adopted in March . The states, led by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer , are arguing that the new standards for 2008-2011 under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy system were not strict enough for trucks and [...]
A group of 111 opposition politicians, rights activists, aid workers and journalists went on trial Tuesday in Ethiopia on charges of treason, inciting violence and attempting to commit genocide, despite calls from human rights groups for their release. If convicted, the defendants could receive the death penalty. The trial began Tuesday with the prosecution promising [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has launched a judicial inquiry into the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians, on a flight over the North Atlantic. The bombing was the largest single modern terror attack before September 11, 2001, and resulted in the longest and most expensive trial in [...]
2005 Wiretap Report, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, May 1, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, April 28, 2006 . Excerpt: All the nuclear material declared by Iran to the Agency is accounted for. Apart fiom the small quantities previously reported to the Board, the Agency has found no other undeclared nuclear material in Iran. [...]
