Search Results for: 2008-08-04

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced Wednesday that it will conduct a public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force Saturday, one month after Ecuador became the 20th country to ratify the treaty . The landmark UN disability rights treaty [JURIST...

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday dismissed an appeal of an injunction suspending a Washington state law that would require pharmacists to dispense Plan B emergency contraceptives [product backgrounder; JURIST news...

The leaders of Pakistan's coalition government reached agreement in Dubai on Thursday on the details of a deal on restoring superior court judges removed in November under President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency , according to local media...

US military personnel - including Army psychologists and medics - continued to use or support "abusive" interrogation tactics even after such methods were prohibited by a 2003 memorandum, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday. According...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday vowed to push for the passage of a new anti-terror bill that would allow British authorities to detain terror suspects up to 42 days without charge. Current law only authorizes detention...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted Wednesday in favor of restricting the controversial Article 301 of the country's penal code , which makes "insulting the Turkish identity"...

Lawyers in China are subject to increasing persecution and intimidation by the Chinese government, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that rights lawyers working on cases...

The trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and seven co-defendants began at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad on Tuesday. Aziz, deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, and...

Navy Captain Prescott Prince , the military-appointed lawyer for confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , has expressed concern over the fairness of his client's upcoming military commission trial....