Search Results for: 2009-02-19

The UK will publish the guidance it gives to intelligence officers for questioning suspects overseas, Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament in a written statement Wednesday. Restating the UK's unequivocal condemnation of torture, Brown said that...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gave notice to the White House Office of Management and Budget Friday that it was preparing to rescind a Bush administration regulation protecting healthcare workers who refuse...

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri , a suspected Al Qaeda operative held in the Navy brig in South Carolina since 2003, is to be officially charged and tried in US federal court, according to news reports....

Spanish Minister of Justice Mariano Fernandez Bermejo resigned on Monday due to mounting pressure following allegations that he interfered with a judicial investigation during a hunting trip with Judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary Schapiro on Thursday named Robert Khuzami as the new director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Khuzmani replaces former director of enforcement Linda Thomsen,...

Both the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed human rights violations by attacking civilians in the Vanni region, according to a...

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, says that the housing bailout provisions of the recently announced stimulus package not only do not go far enough to cover mortgage...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered the UK to pay £2,500 in damages to Islamic cleric Abu Qataba after determining that he was imprisoned by...

Paul Stuart Haberman : "A decision like the one recently handed down by the Common Pleas Court of Erie County, Ohio in Oliver v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al. was long...

Japan's Ministry of Justice announced Thursday that four death row inmates were executed, despite international pressure to end the practice. The executions are the country's first of 2009. Last year, the...