Key organizers of election protests in the Belarus capital city of Minsk who were detained by police will face criminal charges, Belarus Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov said Sunday. Thousands of citizens gathered Saturday to demonstrate against alleged election fraud in last Sunday's presidential elections in which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was reelected to a third term. [...]

France's Interior Minister and anticipated 2007 French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a compromise over a new youth labor law – the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat première embauche, CPE) – which among other things allows employers to fire at will employees under age 26 during the first two years of their employment. [...]

The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Sunday called on the Nigerian government to immediately detain former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor so that he does not disappear before being handed over to the Liberian government to be tried for crimes against humanity by the Special Court. On Saturday, the Nigerian [...]

More than 500,000 pro-immigration activists took to the streets in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest Congressional efforts to crack down on illegal immigration . The protest came in anticipation of Senate debate on a reform bill sponsored by Majority Leader Bill Frist scheduled to begin Tuesday of this week if the US Senate Judiciary [...]

Afghan officials said Sunday they were preparing to release a man possibly facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam after a judge sent the case of Abdul Rahman back to prosecutors, ruling that he lacked enough evidence to proceed. The Afghanistan attorney-general's office indicated that Rahman could be freed while it reviewed [...]

11 CFR Parts 100, 110 and 114 , Internet Communications, Federal Election Commission, March 24, 2006 Read the full text of the proposed rules . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Statement by the Federal Government of Nigeria – Former President Charles Taylor to be Transferred to the Custody of the Government of Liberia, March 25, 2006. Text: On March 5th, 2006, a formal request was sent to President Olusegun Obasanjo by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia requesting that former President Charles Taylor be turned over [...]

US DOJ/Attorney General Gonzales' responses to the House Judiciary Committee's oversight letters regarding the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program, March 24, 2006. Read the full text of the responses . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Friday, March 31 on a resolution introduced by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) censuring President Bush for allegedly breaking the law with his warrantless domestic surveillance program . Feingold introduced the censure resolution in early March, but it received only a lukewarm reception from fellow Senate [...]

A judge in Mississippi Friday issued the first federal ruling on insurance litigation related to the Hurricane Katrina disaster , denying a request from Allstate Insurance Co. to dismiss a case brought by homeowners claiming that Allstate representatives falsely led them to believe that flood damage would be covered by their hurricane insurance policy, and [...]