Acting in the aftermath of the London bombings , the French government has finalized a new draft anti-terror law that would bolster the country’s video, telephone and Internet surveillance as well as tighten travel controls into “countries at risk”. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in a speech in Paris Friday that the 16-article draft [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Sunday called Saturday's International Atomic Energy Agency resolution declaring Iran in "non-compliance" with safeguards under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) a "politically and illegally motivated decision" made to a "US pre-planned scenario", but told reporters that Iran had not ruled out further negotiations with Germany, France and Britain, the so-called [...]

A conference in Turkey on the alleged genocide of 1.5 Armenians in the then-Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1917 went ahead on Saturday despite a court ban that prompted protests from EU representatives who saw it as casting a continuing shadow over Turkey's human rights record as it seeks EU membership. The court ruling was [...]

A California judge ruled Friday that credit card companies Visa and MasterCard do not have to notify individual consumers whose account data was stolen by an as-yet-unknown hacker in a mass cybertheft disclosed by MasterCard earlier this year. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer denied the contention of plaintiffs in a class action suit [...]

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency , September 24, 2005 and allows the IAEA to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for the administration of sanctions]. Read the full text of the resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Delegates to the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting concluding in Vienna Saturday adopted a resolution that for the first time declares Iran in "non-compliance" with safeguards set under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) , a move that allows the IAEA to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for the administration of [...]

An Iraqi lawyer said Saturday that an Iraqi judge has issued warrants for the arrest of 2 British soldiers freed in a UK raid on a Basra jail Monday. The soldiers, reported to be undercover SAS members, are accused of killing an Iraqi policeman and wounding another, carrying unlicensed weapons and holding false identification. Judge [...]

The US boycotted a 3-day UN conference that ended Friday designed to encourage the 11 nuclear countries who have not signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to do so. Thirty-three of the 44 signatories possessing nuclear research and power capabilities have ratified the treaty, but support of the holdouts is necessary for the treaty [...]

Human Rights Watch claimed in a report issued Friday that members of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division systematically tortured Iraqi prisoners in 2003 and 2004 at a military base near Fallujah. A captain and two sergeantsts, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said in the report that detainees were deprived of sleep, food and [...]

Defense psychologists testified in court-martial proceedings Friday that learning disabilities and her "compliant personality" made Pfc. Lynndie England so blindly obedient to her boyfriend and now-incarcerated superior officer Charles Graner that she thought nothing of posing in Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos. Clinical psychologist Xavier Amador told the 5-officer jury that England had "no contemplative [...]