American Federation of Labor, et al., v. Michael Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the Northern District of California, October 10, 2007 [order granting a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security from implementing new regulations intended to...

US President George W. Bush Wednesday called for Congress to make permanent the expansion of surveillance powers granted in August's Protect America Act , adding that he would not sign any eavesdropping bill that does...

Myanmar opposition protester Win Shwe died while being interrogated by junta authorities, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said Wednesday. The Thailand-based group said that Win Shwe died while being tortured and that his...

Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Zdravko Tolimir said in a Wednesday letter to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that he is in "excellent" health and that the ICTY registrar has...

US and Iraqi officials said Wednesday that they have launched an investigation into Iraqi civilian deaths believed to be caused by armed guards working for security and defense company Unity Resources Group . Two women were killed in...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a federal appeals court ruling that the parents of a disabled child are entitled to reimbursement for the costs of private school education under the...

An Argentinean court sentenced former military chaplain Christian von Wernich Tuesday to life imprisonment for participating in seven homicides, 34 cases of torture and 42 cases of kidnapping during the Argentina's Dirty War [Global Security backgrounder;...

Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has filed an appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, challenging the US Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) decision to send Khadr's case back...

The US House of Representatives passed the War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007 Tuesday, a bill creating new criminal provisions to govern fraud conducted by private defense contractors against the US government. The measure, passed by...

Democrats in the US House of Representatives introduced a draft bill Tuesday designed to "modernize" the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) . The so-called RESTORE Act of 2007 ("Responsible Electronic Surveillance...