Addressing US Department of Justice employees the day after being confirmed as US Attorney General , Alberto Gonzales said that the Justice Department's top priority will be "to protect...
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The FBI has been forced to shut down part of the e-mail system it uses to communicate with the public because of a security breach. The FBI is investigating the source of the intrusion, although there is...
Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin Friday praised the United Nations' preliminary report into corruption within the Oil-for-Food program , and called for those who participated to stand trial. The program's former director, Benon Sevan, is accused of...
In Friday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan formally reported to the Security Council Friday morning on the finding of the special UN commission on the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. While the commission did...
Six senior UN human rights experts joined Friday to express their continuing concern over the situation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay . In a statement released in Geneva, UN committee chairs and rapporteurs on arbitrary...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday the human rights record of the Islamic government of Iran was "something to be loathed." Stopping short of calling for...
Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, who now works as a human rights activist, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating a puppet judiciary to persecute opposition leaders. Kasparov compared Putin's recent appointment of an inexperienced jurist...
After pleading guilty earlier this week to charges of battery, dereliction of duty, and lying to Army investigators in connection with alleged alleged abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Sgt. Javal Davis Thursday asked jurors to...
The US Navy announced Thursday that 3 additional prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay had been wrongly classified as "enemy combatants." The findings were made by Combatant Status Review Tribunals instituted after last July's Supreme Court ruling...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, February 4.At the United Nations, the Security Council will hold a 10 AM ET meeting to hear the report of the Secretary-General on...
