The European Union announced Monday that it will temporarily lift a diplomatic freeze imposed on Cuba after the Cuban government jailed 75 dissidents in March 2003. The lifting of sanctions follows the release of several dissidents. The...

Attorneys for Basic Rights Oregon filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the constitutionality of Measure 36 , a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage approved by Oregon voters that states "It is the policy of Oregon, and its...

The Vietnamese government has announced plans to release 8,000 prisoners, including religious activists and political dissidents, as part of its annual amnesty accompanying Tet, the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 9. The government releases a number of...

Following up on a story that ran earlier today in JURIST's Paper Chase, a much-anticipated and as-yet-unreleased UN investigation into human rights abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan does not characterize them as "genocide", according to...

In re: Guantanamo Detainee Cases, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Joyce Hens Green, January 31, 2005 [refusing to grant a government motion to dismiss a case by 12 Guantanamo detainees claiming that military tribunals for...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Marsh & McLennan Cos. , the world's biggest insurance broker, has agreed to pay $850 million to settle charges that the company conspired with insurers to rig bids. Under the agreement...

Thousands of illegal immigrants fled Malaysia Monday as the Malaysian government prepared to launch a campaign to round up and deport illegal foreign workers. January 31 is the last day of a three-month amnesty granted...

In Monday's international brief, the United Kingdom's Special Immigration Appeal Commission has granted bail to three terror suspects individuals being held without charge or trial in London's Belmarsh Prison . The only individual to...

Citing "information... that made me question Mr. Ross's competency," the attorney hired by convicted serial rapist and murderer Michael Ross to expedite his execution filed a motion Monday to delay what would be New England's first execution...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday sentenced former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar to eight years in prison for his role in the 1991 shelling of Dubrovnik , the historic Croatian city...