Chinese police have detained protesters in preparation for the annual ceremonial start of session of the National People's Congress in Beijing and forced them to return to their homes, human rights groups said Friday....
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Ivory Coast president approves extradition of Paris race murder suspect
Ivory Coast President Lauren Gbagbo has signed an extradition order authorizing Youssef Fofana to be transferred to France where he is wanted in connection with the kidnapping, torture and killing of a Jewish man outside Paris. Ivory...
Russian pilots protest bill to allow downing of hijacked planes
Russian civil aviation pilots have drafted an address to President Vladimir Putin expressing concern over a provision in a new anti-terrorism bill allowing for the shooting-down of hijacked planes. The bill was passed last month by...
Guantanamo detainee continues tribunal boycott, protests 'enemy' defense lawyer
Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul , a Guantanamo detainee from Yemen charged with conspiring to commit murder, to attack civilians and civilian objects, and terrorism, boycotted his military commission hearing again Thursday,...
Libya releases 130 political prisoners, including Muslim Brotherhood members
Libya freed 130 political prisoners on Thursday, among them 85 members of the Islamist opposition group Muslim Brotherhood , some of whom have been held since 1998. In 2002, the now-abolished People's Court sentenced the...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist H.A. Hellyer of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, says that the worldwide controversy over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is symptomatic of a new type of tribalism...
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, February 28, 2006 . Read the full text...
Detainee lawyer wants court to prohibit Guantanamo force-feedings
A lawyer for a Yemeni prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has filed a motion in DC federal court asking that the use of a restraint chair and large nasal feeding tubes to force-feed...
Terror glorification offense again rejected in UK upper house
The UK House of Lords Tuesday voted by a margin of 160-156 to remove references to the "glorification" of terrorism from the Terrorism Bill , proposed after the London bombings last...
Uganda opposition launching legal challenge to election results
The main opposition party in Uganda , Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) , said Tuesday that it plans to contest the country's election results in court. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won last Tuesday's election...