The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Tuesday ruled that labor unions can try to prevent employers from hiring cheaper labor from other EU countries, but limited workers' right to strike. The court found that...
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Prosecution and defense lawyers said Tuesday that they will be ready to present evidence when the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumes in January at the Special Court for...
A former Guantanamo detainee who alleges he was tortured when the CIA handed him over to Moroccan interrogators has asked the UK government to ensure that photographic evidence of his torture is preserved, according to Tuesday reports. Ethiopian Binyam...
The superior courts of Pakistan are facing a massive shortage of judges in the wake of automatic dismissals following President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule, according to Pakistani officials in the country's Law Ministry ...
About one dozen officers on trial in the Philippines in connection with a failed 2003 mutiny apologized to the court Tuesday for an aborted coup attempt against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo...
A retired US CIA agent told ABC News Monday that CIA interrogators have successfully used waterboarding to get crucial information about planned terror attacks, though the agent did say he considered the technique to be torture....
Thailand will pardon as many as 25,000 prisoners in honor of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th birthday, Thai Department of Corrections Director Wanchai Roujanavong told AFP Tuesday. Approximately 25,000 inmates are eligible for pardons and...
Lawyers from the CIA's clandestine operations branch, formerly known as the Directorate of Operations, provided written approval for the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects, the New York Times reported Tuesday. According to...
Portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and its 2004 amendment, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which make it a crime to help groups considered to be terrorist organizations by the...
Humanitarian Law Project et al. v. Michael V. Mukasey, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, December 10, 2007 [striking down as too vague portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and its 2004 amendment,...
