A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters: Assessment of Corrective Actions and Examination of NSL Usage in 2006, US Department of Justice, March 13, 2008 . Read the...

Armenian President Robert Kocharian Thursday issued a decree lifting media restrictions put in place during a state of emergency declared after last month's contested presidential election. The decree is set to take effect Friday, but...

An ongoing Pentagon investigation into the videotaping of terror suspect interrogations has uncovered at least 50 videotaped interrogations, the New York Times reported Thursday. Most of the videotaped interrogations involved two terror detainees, Jose Padilla [BBC profile; JURIST news...

The Chinese State Council said Thursday that a US Department of State report critical of the Chinese human rights record is hypocritical given the number of human rights problems in the US. In a report entitled the Human...

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that a stricter air quality rule on ground-level ozone and smog will go into effect in May, requiring some 345 US counties to reduce...

Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Kamin was charged Wednesday with providing material support to terrorism. In its announcement of the sworn charges, the US Defense Department said:The charges allege that between January...

Charge Sheet: Mohammed Kamin, US Department of Defense, March 12, 2008 . Read...

An Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee alleged that he has been mistreated in custody and asked to boycott his upcoming trial at his first pretrial hearing before a military commission Wednesday. Mohammed Jawad is charged...

Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms do not extend to Afghan detainees captured by Canadian soldiers. Amnesty International Canada...

A second employee of French bank Societe Generale has been detained in connection with the investigation into fraudulent activity allegedly committed by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel , the bank said Tuesday. A Societe Generale spokesperson did...