The French Foreign Ministry has announced that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August and whose release was initially made contingent upon the French government not allowing its ban on religious headscarves and regalia in public schools to go into force have been released and handed over to French authorities in Baghdad. The [...]

Los Angeles defense lawyer Mark Geragos, attorney for Scott Peterson, has launched a website to solicit donations for continuing the investigation into their deaths, insisting that "Scott Peterson has been unjustly convicted" of the murders of his wife Laci and unborn son Connor. Peterson is currently awaiting formal sentenecing after a jury recommended the death [...]

An anonymous donor has posted a $100,000 reward for information leading to charges in the unsolved "Freedom Summer" slayings of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi in June, 1964 (read this background news report on the 40th anniversary opf the murders from WBLT in Jackson). The three volunteers, in the state to help to register [...]

An Indian court Tuesday granted bail to the co-founder of Baazee.com, an Indian auction service owned by EBay, pending his trial on indecency charges brought after an auctioner attempted to use the site to sell a home sex tape featuring two students from an elite public school. The case involving Avnish Bajaj, a graduate of [...]

The Iraqi Special Tribunal charged with trying Saddam Hussein and other members of his regime with crimes against humanity responded to recent criticisms about the transparaeny of its process Tuesday by issuing a statement proclaiming its commitment to fairness: "The Iraqi special tribunal wants to ensure that it is an Iraqi independent court and that [...]

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday overturned a lower federal court ruling and reinstated indictments against seven people from Los Angeles accused of providing "material support" to a group defined as a "terrorist organization" by the State Department which was involved in activities supported by the Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The lower court [...]

Log of (and links to) FBI records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents concerning the treatment and interrogation of detainees in United States custody, released December 20, 2004. Review the log of the documents here, with descriptions of contents. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase [...]

FBI records released late Monday by the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request include complaints in 2004 about military impersonation of FBI agents while using "torture technqiques" against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and allege that there was direct Presidential authority in the form of an Executive Order for the use of interrogation [...]

Transcript of Ukrainian presidential debate between Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, televised on UTR , December 20, 2004. Read the transcript here in English and Ukrainian, provided by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US v. Afshari et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 20, 2004 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.