A trial began Saturday for 14 Egyptians charged with helping the men who carried out two bombings in the city of Cairo in April 2005 that left 10 people and the two bombers dead. Tourists appeared to be the targets and an American and two French citizens were among the dead. The defendants face various [...]

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin offered an implied criticism of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in a speech to the Institute of Higher Studies of National Defense Friday in which he said efforts to fight terrorism must always be made "while respecting the rule of law." Villepin declared: In order for the [...]

Two weeks after the arrests of 17 Canadians on terrorism-related charges in the Toronto area, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday announced that his government will step up anti-terrorism efforts in Canada by adding more security at airports, marine ports and railway systems. Harper also indicated that $224 million of the $1.3 billion federal security [...]

The upper chamber of the French parliament adopted a controversial immigration bill Friday after the French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve the measure last month. The bill makes it more difficult for unskilled workers to gain access to the country since a "skills and talents" requirement is necessary to get a residency permit. The [...]

Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the death penalty. Attorneys Jane Siegel and Jeremiah Sullivan III said their clients were questioned for eight-hour periods on at least three [...]

Resolution 1688 (2006), UN Security Council, June 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the resolution. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US Department of Defense documents released Friday chronicle multiple mistreatments of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in 2003 and 2004 but stop short of labeling the instances of mistreatment illegal, describing them instead as "wrong." Over 1000 pages of US military documents handed over to the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request [...]

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed to a resolution authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL} in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the facilities of the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. The [...]

Nepal's government and the Maoist rebels on Friday agreed to draft an interim constitution within 15 days and dissolve the parliament reinstated by the popular people's uprising in April this year. Surprisingly, the Maoists , who have been waging a people's war over a decade, also agreed to go for a competitive multiparty democracy and [...]

Romania has concluded an investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons located near Romanian airports in Europe's "spider's web" of CIA rendition flights , finding no evidence that the country hosted secret prisons or cooperated in rendition flights. A committee of the Romanian Senate undertook the investigation in response to allegations leveled in a Council of [...]