Statement by the Federal Government of Nigeria – Former President Charles Taylor to be Transferred to the Custody of the Government of Liberia, March 25, 2006. Text: On March 5th, 2006, a formal request was sent to President Olusegun Obasanjo by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia requesting that former President Charles Taylor be turned over [...]

US DOJ/Attorney General Gonzales' responses to the House Judiciary Committee's oversight letters regarding the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program, March 24, 2006. Read the full text of the responses . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Friday, March 31 on a resolution introduced by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) censuring President Bush for allegedly breaking the law with his warrantless domestic surveillance program . Feingold introduced the censure resolution in early March, but it received only a lukewarm reception from fellow Senate [...]

A judge in Mississippi Friday issued the first federal ruling on insurance litigation related to the Hurricane Katrina disaster , denying a request from Allstate Insurance Co. to dismiss a case brought by homeowners claiming that Allstate representatives falsely led them to believe that flood damage would be covered by their hurricane insurance policy, and [...]

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) Friday proposed new rules that would require federal political candidates to pay for internet advertisements out of funds regulated by federal campaign laws, but would otherwise leave most online political activity free from government regulation. Recently, a federal appeals court ordered the six-member FEC to create regulations that extend campaign [...]

The former UN Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone who signed the indictment of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor in 2003 Saturday hailed Nigeria's promise to hand over the former warlord , telling JURIST that "This is a great day for the people of Africa and for justice for the tens of thousand [...]

A federal magistrate has ordered the Bush administration to stop blocking a private attorney from meeting with Salim Muhood Adem, one of the 490 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay . Adem, a Sudanese national arrested in Pakistan, asked for a lawyer in late 2004 by having another prisoner request help through his own attorney. [...]

The Supreme Court of Nepal has upheld an ordinance issued by King Gyanendra that permits detention of suspected terrorists without charge or trial for up to a year. A 2-1 majority of a three-judge panel ruled Thursday that preventative detention provisions were permissible and constitutional under the umbrella of national security interests. Gyanendra's Terrorist and [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) responded Friday to Democratic questions and Republican questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee regarding the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, maintaining that National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists is legal and satisfies the requirements of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act . The DOJ responses [...]

Riot police and demonstrators clashed Saturday in the Belarus capital city of Minsk as thousands of citizens gathered again to protest alleged election fraud in last Sunday's presidential elections in which current President Alexander Lukashenko was reelected. Opposition politician Aleksander Kozulin was reportedly beaten and detained by police as he was leading the march, although [...]