UK-based human rights group Liberty has said that remarks by UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that the US had not requested clearance for any flights relating to rendition only served to...

Letter to certain US Senate Judiciary Committee members concerning the conference report on Patriot Act renewal legislation, Senator Arlen Specter, December 12, 2005. Read the full text of the letter....

Prosecutors have asked that the the trial of US Rep. Tom DeLay be postponed while they appeal the dismissal of felony conspiracy charges against him. Texas Judge Pat Priest threw out the conspiracy charge...

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Monday that outbreaks of racial violence that began in Sydney Sunday could undermine the country's strict new anti-terror law by making it more difficult for police to build...

The Afghan government has adopted a plan to investigate war crimes and human rights violations committed from 1978 until the end of the Taliban rule. The Action Plan for Peace, Reconciliation and Justice in Afghanistan comes after months of...

Statement of Decision denying clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, December 12, 2005 . Read the full statement of decision . Reported...

AP is reporting that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to grant clemency to Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams , set to be executed just after midnight tonight. In denying clemency,...

German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis Monday submitted a new report to the UN Security Council on the February bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , including additional evidence of Syrian involvement in the murder. Mehlis...

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , currently a member of the defense team representing deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has said that Hussein is being poorly treated in detention, kept in isolation and forced to go...

AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that FEMA cannot end its hotel accommodation program for hurricane refugees until Feb. 7, one month later than the agency had planned. Lawyers for Katrina victims launched a lawsuit [JURIST...