US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld kept tabs on the 2002 interrogations of Mohamed al-Qahtani , the so-called "20th hijacker" from the Sept. 11 attacks, every week at Guantanamo Bay , according to a report...

Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, April 14, 2006 [upholding a 2005 law enacted by the Indiana General Assembly that requires most voters to present a valid, government-issued photo identification card...

Eduard Rebgun, who was appointed by a Moscow court hearing a bankruptcy case for crippled Russian oil company Yukos to manage the company, petitioned a federal court in New York City under Chapter 15...

A Central African Republic court referred former president Ange Felix Patasse and Congo's Vice-President Jean Pierre Bemba to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Friday on war crimes charges stemming from...

Some of US television's most prominent networks and their affiliates filed notices of appeal in federal district courts across the nation late Thursday and early Friday in response to a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website; JURIST news...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been asked by the US government to accept a group of Chinese Uighur detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay , according to a report in Friday's Die...

Protesters stepped into action across Nepal on Friday in response to the traditional new year message of King Gyanendra , in which the ruler promised to hold general elections and dialogue with the...

A Congolese opposition group, the Holy Alliance, has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to ban Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila from running in this year's general elections, the first democratic elections...

The International Commission of Jurists on Friday called the arrest of hundreds of lawyers and pro-democracy demonstrators during the past few days in Nepal unlawful and arbitrary and demanded that King Gyanendra ...

British police on Thursday arrested Des Smith, the first person held in police custody in the "cash for honors" probe , before releasing him on bail later in the day. The arrest stemmed from allegations that the...