Lawyers for two long-time British residents seized by the US and detained at Guantanamo Bay claim to have documents that indicate British officials prompted their arrests while withholding information that would have aided the two men. Bisher al-Rawi , an Iraqi who had lived in Britain for 20 years, and Jordanian refugee Jamil el-Banna are [...]

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that UN human rights envoy Yash Ghai should be removed from his position as special envoy after Ghai publicly criticized Cambodia's intolerance to dissent . The comments come one day after Ghai said that Hun Sen's rule has meant little in the way of human rights or political [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that at its 100th annual meeting this week in Washington, DC, the American Society of International Law is being called upon to take a stand on the laws of war and occupation at a critical moment in the history of the [...]

Afghanistan's parliament on Wednesday demanded that government officials block Abdul Rahman , the Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, from seeking asylum in another country. Parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni told reporters that a letter was sent to the Interior Ministry on behalf of the entire parliament demanding Rahman [...]

Fugitive war crimes indictee Charles Taylor , who disappeared from his villa in the south of Nigeria where he had been living in exile since 2003, has been recaptured, according to a Nigerian police spokesman. The Liberian ex-president was reportedly detained while going through immigration at Gamboru-Ngala, a town near Nigeria's border with Cameroon. The [...]

Five federal judges experienced with surveillance requests appeared Tuesday before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in support of committee chairman Arlen Specter's proposal to require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret panel established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , to conduct regular reviews of the National Security Administration's warrantless surveillance program . [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Tuesday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) has dropped its appeal of a September District Court order requiring it to publicly release more photographs showing detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, pursuant to an ACLU request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . A supposedly-full [...]

Court-appointed lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui rested the case of their headstrong and sometimes fractious client in federal court Tuesday by reading recorded statements from five al Qaeda leaders to show that contrary to Moussaoui's own testimony , he was not in fact slated to participate in the Sept. 11 attacks . Instead, the attorneys sought [...]

The Miami federal judge presiding over the trial of terror suspect Jose Padilla Tuesday placed tight restrictions on disclosure of evidence containing classified material. US District Judge Marcia Cooke's order under the Classified Information Procedures Act is primarily intended to prevent the public from gaining access to US national security secrets – including interrogations evidence, [...]

A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) violated s. 2511 of US Code Title 18 by disclosing an illegally obtained tape to reporters in 1996. The majority found that McDermott violated the rights of Representative John Boehner (R-OH) who was heard on the taped [...]