The former US Army commander of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib prison said Wednesday that the Army lacked clear rules regarding the use of dogs during interrogations of Iraqi prisoners. Col. Thomas Pappas , who has been given immunity, testified at the court-martial of dog handler Sgt. Michael J. Smith, who has been charged with [...]

Three Russian police officers pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage crisis on Thursday as their trial opened in southern Russia. Prosecutors say the police failed to raise security levels despite warnings about the possibility of attacks in the region. Chechen terrorists killed over 330 people in [...]

The Supreme Court of Nepal on Thursday ordered the release of two leaders in the Nepali Congress Democratic party who were arrested almost two months ago in a government crackdown on opposition politicians and activists. The court ruled that the government had no right to hold the men, arrested during January night raids on their [...]

Officials in Ethiopia have released another 395 protesters who were detainees after violent mass demonstrations following Ethiopia's May 2005 elections, bringing the total number of protesters released to over 8,200. According to the prosecutor general's office, the 395 were released due to "low-level participation in the violence, their ages and their penitence." Eighty people died [...]

The New York Times and a former reporter have been subpoenaed by lawyers for former vice-presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to obtain reporter's notes and other information related to the CIA leak case . The requested notes belong to former NYT reporter Judith Miller , who served 85 days in jail for [...]

High-level military attorneys have told Congress that some interrogation methods used at Guantanamo Bay are not consistent with guidelines in the Army Field Manual . In a written response to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee , lawyers from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps wrote that certain tactics used to interrogate terrorism suspect [...]

Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Thursday ordered that confidential materials in the Slobodan Milosevic case be made available to an ICTY inquiry team and Dutch authorities investigating the circumstances of the former Yugoslav president's death last weekend. Under the order , case materials that had been kept confidential because [...]

The US House on Wednesday voted to keep language in an emergency appropriations bill that would block the transfer of operations at six US ports to United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World , despite the company's decision to transfer all US port operations to an American company. DP World confirmed Wednesday that it will sell [...]

Leading Thursday's international brief, a Ugandan high court judge has refused to grant a defense motion that would have dismissed charges of treason and concealment of treason against Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye . Besigye's lawyers had argued that the prosecution's indictment of Besigye was "incurably defective" and the charges should be dismissed. The high [...]

Motion by USA for Reconsideration of the Court's 1681 Order Striking All Aviation Evidence in the Zacarias Moussaoui Case, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the government motion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.