Thailand bans YouTube in response to 'insulting' video of king
The government of Thailand Wednesday banned access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube and several other websites that contain material deemed offensive to the country's monarch. The YouTube ban resulted from a video depicting...
UK coroner rules US 2003 Iraq 'friendly fire' attack that killed soldier 'criminal'
British coroner Andrew Walker ruled Friday that a US A-10 tank-buster "friendly fire" attack on a UK troop convoy that killed UK soldier Matty Hull "amounted to an assault. It was unlawful because there was...
Turkish prosecutors charge professor with 'insulting Ataturk legacy'
A Turkish prosecutor officially filed charges against political science professor Atilla Yayla Tuesday for "insulting the legacy" of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founder of modern Turkey. The professor is being prosecuted for a November 18 speech,...
Viacom files $1B copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube, Google
Media giant Viacom filed a lawsuit Tuesday for copyright infringement against the website YouTube and owner Google , seeking over $1 billion in damages and an injunction that would prohibit further infringement. Viacom, which owns Comedy...
A Turkish court on Friday lifted a ban on YouTube two days after the court banned the popular video-sharing website . The court had ordered telecom providers in the country to block access because of videos...
Turkish court bars YouTube access after videos 'insulting' Ataturk
A Turkish court Wednesday ordered telecom providers in the country to block access to YouTube because of videos insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . The controversial videos have caused an uproar...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Teesdale, an attorney in the Federal Public Defenders Office in Portland, Oregon representing Guantanamo detainee Adel Hamad, a Sudanese national transferred to Guantanamo in early 2003 from Pakistan, says that on the fifth anniversary of...
Saddam sentenced to death in Dujail crimes against humanity case
Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants were convicted and sentenced to death by hanging Sunday for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail [JURIST...
Copyright lawsuit filed against YouTube for posting 1992 Denny beating video
The Internet video site YouTube was sued in federal district court Tuesday for alleged copyright infringement related to video of the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The suit was...
