President Bush said Monday that he still fully supports US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales despite the growing number of Republicans who have expressed concern over the firings of nine federal prosecutors , telling reporters at a press conference on the Bush Ranch that "He has got my confidence. He has done nothing wrong…I stand by [...]

The British Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with murder in the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko . British prosecutors are seeking Lugovoi's arrest and extradition, and a high-level deputy of British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett summoned Russian Ambassador Yury [...]

Leaders in the US Senate said Monday that a final vote on an immigration reform agreement reached last week will be delayed until June due to opposition from both sides in Congress. Some Republican senators have derided the latest immigration reform plan as amounting to "amnesty" for up to 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in [...]

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU-Texas) won a temporary restraining order from the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas Monday, blocking the enforcement of an anti-illegal immigration city ordinance that was scheduled to take effect Tuesday in Farmers Branch, Texas. [...]

More than one hundred Muslim extremists belonging to the group al-Jihad have been released from Egyptian prisons over the last two weeks, according to Egyptian police on Monday. The prisoners, many of whom had been held for over a decade, were released only after signing statements renouncing the use of violence to promote their cause. [...]

Prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari was formally charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government by organizing a network "against the sovereignty of the country," according to Iranian television Monday. Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , was formally arrested on May 7 and [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Monday called for the government of Myanmar to unconditionally release pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi . Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy , has spent 11 of the past 17 years in prison or under house arrest [...]

The last of fourteen defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings trial who announced participation in a hunger strike ended their efforts Monday, citing a desire not to put additional stress on the court. The four defendants who initiated the strike on May 10, three of whom are believed to be the masterminds behind the [...]

Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr. : "Lawyers and law students, civilian and military, need to pause and seriously consider both the court-martial and verdict in the case of Navy JAG, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Diaz. My comments are not about the moral issues or that of civil disobedience for the greater good. Rather, the basic question – [...]

Mikaeli Muhimana v. The Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, May 21, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.