A UK High Court judge has ruled that three UK residents detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 can seek a court order requiring the British government to petition the US government for their release. The UK government has thusfar said that it cannot represent non-British citizens at the camp, even if they [...]
As ongoing unrest stemming from the controversy over the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continues, Pakistani police on Friday placed radical Islamic leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest to prevent him from giving his usual Friday sermon at a mosque in Lahore. Saeed is the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militia, which has been designated [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctly put the most popular candidate in office but has done so at considerable cost to his [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that decisions by the Republican leaders of two congressional committees not to launch probes into warrantless NSA surveillance of Americans contrary to FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, reflect a serious breakdown in the constitutional system of checks and balances between [...]
Sheriff's officials in Los Angeles have said they intend to pursue criminal charges against at least two dozen inmates who participated in a series of racially motivated riots in early February at the North County Correctional Facility . Two people have been killed in the violence and over 100 inmates have been injured in a [...]
A Belgian court has convicted three men for being members of an Islamic group connected to terror attacks in Casablanca in May 2003 and Madrid in March 2004. The men were on trial for their alleged membership in a Belgian cell of the militant Moroccan Islamist Combatant Group (GICM) . The case was the first [...]
The UN High Commission on Refugees has expressed alarm at Ukraine's deportation of 10 Uzbek asylum-seekers to Uzbekistan where they may face torture and abuse, alleging the deportations violated international law. An eleventh detainee was kept in Ukraine because he has relatives there. Nine of the eleven men had registered with UNHCR office in Kiev [...]
French Justice Minister Pascal Clement has responded to a new Council of Europe (COE) report released on Wednesday criticizing France's human rights record by calling it "unfair". The 100 page report identified a range of shortcomings in the French justice system relating to the treatment of newly arrived foreigners, domestic violence, police brutality, detention conditions, [...]
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Thursday rejected a call from thirty-one Senate Democrats to recuse himself from the ongoing investigation of Jack Abramoff because he was too close to the President and other top officials associated with the lobbyist. In January, Gonzales similarly rebuffed a call from Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Ken Salazar (D-CO) [...]
EPIC v. DOJ, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, February 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
