The man believed to be the commander of the Irish Republican Army was arrested Wednesday night and charged Thursday with nine counts of tax evasion, totaling $3.7 million. Thomas "Slab" Murphy is believed to be the chief of staff of the IRA. He was arrested by detectives from the Criminal Assets Bureau , a division [...]

The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) Thursday published a report on its investigation into the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in a London Tube station by officers of the Metropolitan Police Service who mistakenly believed he was a suspect in the 2005 London transit bombing attempts . The IPCC report criticized [...]

Zimbabwean Attorney General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele has been charged with corrupt conduct for allegedly contacting a fugitive, Zimbabwean police said Thursday. Gula-Ndebele is charged with violating the Criminal Law (Codification Reform) Act for doing "anything contrary to or inconsistent with a duty as a Public Officer" and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted [...]

The man who shot and paralyzed former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972 will be released from a Maryland prison Friday, according to an alert from an automated victim-notification system Thursday. Prison officials have refused to publicly confirm the release date due to security reasons. Arthur Bremer , who has served 35 years of his [...]

The Russian Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 , and therefore not eligible for legal rehabilitation. The decision upholds a September determination by Russia's Prosecutor General which said that the Tsar could not be rehabilitated, as he was not executed following a formal [...]

Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner dedicated a new monument to victims of the 1976-83 Dirty War in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The monument, on which the names of thousands of victims are engraved, sits beside the Rio de la Plata, where drugged prisoners who were suspected of "subversion" were thrown to their deaths. Kirchner used the [...]

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that warrants for documents seized from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma were lawfully obtained, and could be used against him in any potential corruption trial. The court heard arguments in the case , filed by the country's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) , in September. The decision overturns [...]

Pakistani prosecutors on Thursday charged four activists with treason, the first such charges brought under the declaration of emergency rule implemented by President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday. The four activists, who are in detention following a series of arrests made this week by Pakistani police, were charged with making anti-Musharraf speeches in the southern city [...]

US military forces in Iraq released 500 detainees at a joint ceremony with the Iraqi government on Thursday at Camp Victory outside Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , speaking to the newly released detainees on Thursday, said the release is part of an effort to harmonize relations between the Shiite and Sunni populations. Sunnis [...]

1LT. Ehren K. Watada v. Lt. Col. John Head, Military Judge, Army Trial Judiciary, Fourth Judicial District, et al., US District Court for the Western District of Washington, November 8, 2007 . Read the full text of the preliminary injunction . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.