An additional 14 Guantanamo Bay detainees have gone on hunger strike, Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand said Thursday, bringing the total number of detainees on hunger strike to 89 after it was announced Monday that the number...
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Rights group condemns imprisonment of China protesters without open trial
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the conviction and imprisonment on last week of 13 Chinese villagers who participated in a riot in Dongzhou last December. The 13 villagers were...
Jordan court convicts editors for printing Muhammad cartoons
A Jordanian court on Tuesday convicted the editors of two national newspapers and sentenced them to two months' imprisonment for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that incited protests and violence across the Muslim world earlier...
Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, signed by President George W. Bush, May 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Thailand sets new election date as PM sues opponents for defamation
Thailand's Cabinet on Tuesday approved October 15 as the date for new elections just three weeks after the country's Constitutional Court annulled last month's parliamentary elections , finding that the Election Commission unconstitutionally organized...
President Bush on Memorial Day signed into law the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act , legislation barring protests near military funerals originally passed in the US House of Representatives ...
A Belarus court on Monday sentenced Sergei Lyashkevich, an official who helped run the campaign of opposition presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich , to five months in jail for training and paying people to riot during the...
The US military said Monday that the number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has increased from 3 to about 75. Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand described the strike as an effort to attract...
Egypt protesters say tortured by police after peaceful demonstration
Two Egyptian protesters were allegedly tortured and sexually assaulted by Egyptian police after a peaceful demonstration in favor of two judicial reformists who exposed alleged fraud in the country's election last year, according to one of the...
Gonzales threatened to quit if forced to turn over Jefferson office search evidence: NYT
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice who said they would...