Alien Detention Standards: Telephone Access Problems Were Pervasive at Detention Facilities; Other Deficiencies Did Not Show a Pattern of Noncompliance, Government Accountability Office, July 6, 2007 [finding that the total number of aliens detained annually for immigration violations jumped from...

Russia expressed displeasure with the UK Friday over British refusal to prosecute exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky for his calls to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin . Berezovsky, who has been living in the...

Response of the US Department of Justice to the Declaration of a former Combatant Status Review Tribunal officer, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 6, 2007 [denying allegations made by a US Army officer that...

The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on Friday convicted former Pharmaceutical Registration Department Director Cao Wenzhuan of corruption and dereliction of duty for receiving approximately $316,000 in bribes from two pharmaceutical companies in exchange for certifying...

American Civil Liberties Union, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, July 6, 2007 [rejecting an ACLU lawsuit challenging the federal government's domestic surveillance program on the grounds that the plaintiffs...

South Dakota is preparing to hold its first execution in 60 years next week, AP reported Friday. The execution was halted last year by Governor Mike Rounds , but the passage of new lethal injection protocols...

Italy's Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) , the country's top self-governing judiciary body, has accused the Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) under the government of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has denied a prosecution motion which sought to move the trial of former Bosnian army commander Rasim Delic [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF; Trial Watch...

Mizanur Rahman was convicted Thursday in a UK court of inciting murder during a February 2006 protest against the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad . Rahman, who has already been convicted for inciting...

US District Judge Cecilia Altonaga upheld torture charges Thursday against the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, Charles McArthur Emmanuel , rejecting Emmanuel's argument that a federal anti-torture statute [18 USC 2340A...