Leading Monday's international brief, the Law Society of Kenya has said that it is initiating a private lawsuit against three senior Kenyan government officials for their part in last week's police raid on the Standard Group's journalistic offices. The suit names the attorney general, Interior Minister John Michuki, and Police Commissioner Hussein Ali as representatives [...]

An Uzbek court on Monday sentenced opposition leader Sandjar Umarov to 10 years and eight months in prison for organizing a criminal group, tax evasion and money laundering. Umarov, leader of the opposition Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition , has said he will appeal the decision. Umarov has maintained his innocence, but presiding Judge Zokirjon Isayev said [...]

Milan Babic , former wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs during the Balkan wars, was found dead in his cell at a UN detention facility Sunday after he committed suicide. Babic was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to 13 years in prison for his role in ethnic cleansing, after pleading [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act preventing federal judges from seeing problematic evidence on why detainees are being held… Habeas actions [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act preventing federal judges from seeing problematic evidence on why detainees are being held… Habeas actions [...]

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board created by the US Congress in December 2004 implementing a recommendation from the 9/11 Commission will finally begin to function later this month when the Board's five members are sworn in at the White House and convene their first session, according to Newsweek magazine Sunday. In association with [...]

Lawmakers on Sunday urged an overhaul of the US government investment review process that approved the takeover by United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World of operating rights at several United States ports. The current process is overseen by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) , under the US Treasury Department. Senate [...]

A new report from Amnesty International (AI) concludes that the arbitrary detention of thousands of people in Iraq facilitates abuses of prisoners. Using official figures from the Multi-National Force in Iraq , AI says there are more than 14,000 security detainees in coalition custody – mostly at Camp Bucca and Abu Ghraib – but many [...]

In a speech to the East Tennessee Economic Council, US National Nuclear Security Administration head Linton Brooks , has publicly acknowledged for the first time the Bush administration's intent to abandon "nuclear disarmament." Brooks said Friday that the goal of complete nuclear disarmament will no longer be an active component of US foreign policy as [...]

The Sudanese government has threatened to withdraw from the African Union (AU) if a proposed takeover of the AU's peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region by the United Nations goes into effect. The Sudan Tribune Saturday quoted a spokesman for the Sudanese Ministry for Foreign Affairs as saying, "We will resist this attempt and respond [...]