Western nations said Wednesday they would continue working to free five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were sentenced to life in prison in Libya after being accused of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus. The medics were originally sentenced to death , but the Libyan Supreme Judiciary Council commuted their sentences [...]

Thailand's interim-government lifted a ban on the registration of new political parties Wednesday, after the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) approved legislation formally ending the ban instituted by the military after its September 2006 coup . The move will allow members of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai (TRT) , in power before the coup, to [...]

The UK Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday formally rejected any possible proposal to try Andrei Lugovoy for the poisoning-murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in a foreign court or on foreign soil. Spokesperson for the prime minister, Michael Ellam, clarified his earlier statement that "we want the trial to be in a British Court," [...]

The Michigan Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a voter ID law in that state, ruling against critics who argued that the ID requirement is essentially a poll tax. The 5-2 decision was split down party lines, with the Republican majority deciding that since voters who don't have a photo ID can vote after signing a sworn [...]

Co-prosecutors for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) submitted their first introductory submission Wednesday, referring factual allegations of 25 instances of murder, torture, unlawful detention, forced labor, as well as religious, political and ethnic persecution, and other crimes to co-investigating judges to bring charges against five unnamed suspects believed to be responsible [...]

Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers again refused Tuesday to testify in front of the US House Judiciary Committee regarding the allegedly political firings of eight US attorneys . In a letter to the committee, Miers' lawyer repeated previous assertions that President George W. Bush has ordered Miers not to cooperate with the investigation, citing [...]

The US policy of deporting legal immigrants convicted of crimes has separated an estimated 1.6 million children and adults and resulted in the permanent exile of permanent residents for even non-violent misdemeanor offenses, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW US Program senior research Alison Parker, the author of [...]

A court sitting at London's Old Bailey on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Muhid, Umran Javed, and Mizanur Rahman to six-year prison terms for inciting murder and racial hatred during a February 2006 protest against the republication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad . The court also sentenced a fourth defendant, Abdul Saleem, to a four-year term [...]

An Indian TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities) court on Wednesday sentenced three defendants to death for their roles in the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in India's financial center. The three defendants, Pervez Sheikh, Abdul Turq, and Mohammed Mushtaq Tarani, were issued death sentences after the court [...]

In re Request for Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutionality of 2005 PA 71, Michigan Supreme Court, July 18, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.