A Chilean appeals court in Santiago Friday sentenced General Manuel Contreras , the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet , to 10 years in prison. Contreras, the former head of Pinochet's...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ruled out the possibility of a United Nations investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in an interview with a French newspaper published Friday. He told...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a memo saying that its officers are now required to obtain a judge's approval before a deportee can be sedated in order to facilitate his or her removal from...
US Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby , commander of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, was reassigned Friday after only six months at that position. The date of Buzby's departure for the Virginia-based US Fleet...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that NASA cannot compel low-risk contract employees working at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to undergo intensive background checks. NASA has...
Shafiq Rasul et al. v. Richard Myers, Air Force General et al., January 11, 2008 [ruling that four former Guantanamo Bay detainees - all UK citizens - do not have the right to sue high-ranking US government officials for alleged...
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa will charge Jackie Selebi , chief of the South African Police Services (SAPS) and President of INTERPOL , with corruption and defeating the course of...
Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into a survivor organization formed after the 2004 Beslan school siege , according to the organization's chairwoman, quoted by AP Friday. The Voice of Beslan [advocacy website, in...
REAL ID Final Rule, US Department of Homeland Security, January 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the final rule. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in four cases , including Davis v. Federal Election Commission (07-320) , in which the Court will consider whether the so-called millionaire's amendment [FEC...