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.

Government prosecutors in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial asked US District Judge Leonie Brinkema late Wednesday to reconsider her Tuesday order prohibiting the government from presenting the aviation portion of its case, including witnesses, testimony, and exhibits. Brinkema barred the evidence after being informed that a government attorney violated the judge's witness sequestration ruling and [...]

Decision on possible criminal proceedings in the case of Jyllands-Posten's article "The Face of Muhammed", Denmark Director of Public Prosecutions, March 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Orders Resolving Numerous Broadcast Television Indecency Complaints, US Federal Communications Commission, March 15, 2006. Read the full text of FCC 06-17 on Complaints Regarding Various Television Broadcasts Between February 2, 2002 and March 8, 2005; FCC 06-18 on Complaints Against Various Television Licensees Concerning their December 31, 2004 Broadcast of the Program "Without A Trace"; [...]