The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has said that the organization will monitor polling places during the upcoming mid-term elections on November 7 in ten states chosen in part because of a...
The chief judge presiding over Saddam Hussein's genocide trial agreed Tuesday to allow two lawyers representing one of Hussein's co-defendants to return to court. The lawyers had been participating in a boycott of the...
President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Tuesday. The US Congress approved the bill late last month after leaders of the House of Representatives decided to forego the...
A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen who is also a legal resident of Germany, said Tuesday that Germany is investigating allegations of abuse by German soldiers. Kurnaz, who...
The trial of six suspected Islamic militants accused of planning an attack against Dutch politicians began Monday in the Netherlands. The defendants include twenty-year-old Samir Azzouz , whose previous acquittal sparked intense criticism of Dutch anti-terrorism laws. Azzouz...
Two terror suspects whose movement had been restricted under control orders in the UK were reported as missing Monday. One of the individuals is an Iraqi who appears to have been missing for several months,...
The number of hate crimes committed in the US in 2005 fell 6 percent when compared to 2004 numbers, but the percentage of race-based incidents increased slightly, according to figures in a new report from the...
Weinschenk v. Missouri, Supreme Court of Missouri, October 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURISTs Paper...
Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , once again on Monday strongly criticized Serbia's lack of progress in the capture and arrest of war crimes fugitive...
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recommended that three ex-employees of Anvil Mining , an Australian company, be tried for complicity in war crimes committed by Congolese government soldiers in 2004. The...