States brief ~ CT Supreme Court orders town to release aerial photos, maps to public
Leading Wednesday's states brief, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled today that the town of Greenwich must release its computer database of aerial photographs and maps to the public. The Supreme Court rejected the town's argument that the...
Bush meets with dissidents to highlight rights abuses abroad
In an effort to highlight human rights abuses in certain countries, President Bush has begun meeting with dissidents in an approach similar to the one taken by former President Ronald Reagan in his meetings with Soviet dissidents during the...
International brief ~ Mugabe orders halt to mass evictions and arrests
Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has announced a halt to the current nationwide police crackdown against illegal and black market merchants and unauthorized dwellings that has allegedly resulted in the eviction and/or...
Detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay claim they were sold into captivity, according to new US government documents released to AP under the Freedom of Information Act . The CIA and the US Defense, State and Justice...
In a 7-2 decision the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional to force capital murder defendants to appear before juries in shackles. The majority said that viewing a prisoner in shackles would be too...
German citizen wrongly held in Kabul until Rice release order
US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...
Following up on a story reported last week in JURIST's Paper Chase, two Houston oil executives pleaded not guilty Monday in a Manhattan federal court to charges of defrauding the UN Oil-For-Food program and paying millions...
The ACLU , Break the Chains , and the Brennan Center for Justice released a report Thursday indicating that America's war on drugs is inflicting deep and disproportionate harm on women, most of them mothers....
Israel's Justice Ministry announced Thursday that Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been indicted for violating the terms of his release from prison. Vanunu completed an 18-year prison sentence in April for revealing...
UN Security Council calls on Haiti to curb rights violations
The UN Security Council has urged government officials in Haiti to curb human rights violations and expedite the releases of political leaders currently held in prison. In a statement Wednesday the...
