Despite newly-uncovered e-mails from former US military prosecutors that characterize the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay as "rigged" and "a fraud", the Australian government is still backing a military trial for detained Australian David Hicks . Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday that he was told that the e-mails had already been investigated by [...]

Khalil Dulaimi, an Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Tuesday that he is boycotting the former president's trial after a man allegedly grabbed Hussein by the arm at a hearing last Thursday and tried to attack him . Dulaimi is refusing to rejoin the proceedings until the attacker, who Dulaimi believed to be [...]

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the US military is holding two ethnic Uighur Muslims at Guantanamo that have been found not to be enemy combatants. Lawyers for Abu Bakker Qassim and Adel Abdu al-Hakim went before a federal court on Monday to seek their release after learning Friday that the men had [...]

Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authority, 2004, US Department of Justice, released July 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the report here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

London police arrested two more men Monday in connection with the July 21 London bombing attempts following raids in South London's Stockwell and Clapham areas. The men were taken into custody and detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, a charge created by the Prevention of Terrorism Act of [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday that the White House has no plans to respond to a request from Senate Democrats for documents produced by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Late Friday, Senate Judiciary Committee member Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) told reporters that Democrats would make a request for documents from about 20 [...]

A Pennsylvania man jailed for 19 years was released from prison in Pittsburgh Monday after DNA evidence cleared him of rape charges. Thomas Doswell , an African-American, was convicted of raping a hospital worker in 1986, and sentenced to 13 to 26 years in prison. Law students at the Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo [...]

A US Department of Defense spokesperson Monday dismissed allegations made by two former military prosecutors that the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay are "rigged" and often deprive defendants of evidence that could help prove their innocence. Defense Department spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told reporters that the DOD Inspector General conducted a full investigation into the [...]

Leading Monday's states brief, the California Supreme Court ruled today that a private country club must offer spousal discounts to same-sex domestic partners. The court found that the country club's policy of allowing members' spouses to golf for free while charging members' domestic partners was "impermissible marital status discrimination." In the majority opinion, Justice Carlos [...]

British officials are seeking the return of Hamdi Isaac, the suspected fourth bomber in the July 21 London bombing attempts . Isaac, an Ethiopian who was living in the UK under the name Osman Hussain and claimed to be of Somali origin, was arrested in Rome on Friday , a move which led the British [...]