Mexican lawmakers began working this week to revive a bill that will decriminalize personal drug possession or possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Lawmakers hope to override a potential veto by Mexican President Vicente Fox...
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The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday voted 359-53 to pass a bill that will shorten the military conscription requirement from two years to one, beginning in January 2008. The bill is expected to...
A court in Japan has ruled that journalists have a right not to disclose the identities of their sources. The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday reversed a district court order that a newspaper reporter...
UK Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett said Thursday that Britain will take custody of former Liberian President Charles Taylor if he is convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone , as...
The US government can detain non-citizens indefinitely on the basis of religion, race or national origin, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that "the executive is free to single out 'nationals of a particular country' and focus enforcement efforts...
The US military has canceled regular visits between detainees at Guantanamo Bay and their lawyers this week after three prisoners committed suicide last weekend, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) ,...
Italian prosecutors finished an investigation on Wednesday into the 2005 killing of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari by a US soldier, but have not yet decided if they will charge US Army Specialist Mario Lozano with murder....
A military lawyer representing Yemeni Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, one of ten Guantanamo Bay detainees awaiting trial before a military commission , filed a motion Wednesday to move al-Bahlul's trial to a Navy base in...
Third Report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the UN Security Council Pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005), Luis Moreno Ocampo, June 14, 2006 [reporting that the ICC investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur has documented thousands...
American Friends Service Committee, et al v. US Department of Defense [lawsuit filed by the ACLU seeking to force the US Department of Defense to reveal information collected for a domestic terrorist threats database that was used to conduct spying...
