DOJ appoints US Attorneys to investigate national security leaks
US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two US Attorneys on Friday to investigate recent "leaks" of classified information. The investigation will run concurrently with an FBI investigation, and the US Attorneys are empowered to prosecute...
UN rights chief: US drone attacks in Pakistan legally dubious
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay declared on Friday that US drone strikes in Pakistan raise grave legal concerns under international law. Pillay expressed particular concern that the drone strikes do not comport with the...
A Pakistani doctor who helped the US government find Osama Bin Laden was convicted last week for his association to a militant group in Pakistan, not for his ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
A Pakistani doctor was sentenced to 33 years in prison Wednesday for helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) locate Osama Bin Laden . After a trial lasting two months during which Shakeel Afridi was not...
Advocacy groups file information request on missile attack that killed Yemen civilians
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a request for information to the US Department of Defense on Tuesday under the under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
The Pakistani Parliament on Thursday approved recommendations for redefining the government's relationship with the US and NATO, including calling for an end to CIA drone strikes. The new plan comes in response to the incidental...
JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the Barry University School of Law says that the double standard concerning the killing of US citizens developed as a result of overseas anti-terrorism efforts and is more recently apparent in the domestic "stand...
A Pakistani court convicted three widows and two daughters of Osama Bin Laden for illegally entering and residing in the country. The court ordered these five women, who were arrested on March 3, to...
The Pakistani parliamentary national security committee on Tuesday urged the US to stop the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attacks . The relationship between the two countries has suffered since a NATO airstrike in November...
Rights group to sue UK for role in drone strikes against Pakistan
A UK human rights group and law firm announced Monday that they will bring legal proceedings against the British government for sharing intelligence with the US to assist in drone strikes against Pakistan. The...
