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An Indonesian court Tuesday threw out a $107 million lawsuit brought by Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (profile from BBC News) against Time magazine. Bashir filed suit against the magazine seeking for linking him to terrorism in a 2002...

The US Justice Department has responded to yesterday's district court ruling that the Guantanamo military commission proceedings are unlawful (reported here on JURIST's Paper Chase) by saying it will seek an emergency stay of the ruling and will immediately...

A report by the Rand Institute for Civil Justice released Monday has found that victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks have received $38.1 billion in compensation, mostly from insurance companies. The largest portion of the compensation went to...

Members of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have harshly criticized a proposal by Russian officials to detain relatives of terrorists to discourage hostage-taking. Such a proposal would violate international law, according to UN human...

Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who is on trial for last year's hotel bombing in Bali, has called his trial a joke Thursday, saying that the US and Australia are masterminding his trial. Bashir, who is alleged to be...

Human dignity denied: Torture and accountability in the 'war on terror', Amnesty International, October 27, 2004 . Excerpt:The struggle against torture...

Bourgeois et al. v. Peters et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, October 15, 2004 . Excerpt: While the threat of terrorism...

Judge Victor Marrero, United States Distrcit Court, Southern District of New York, September 29, 2004 . Read the opinion...

US v. Ali al-Timini, September 23, 2004 . Read the indictment here...

Address to the enlarged Government meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin, September 13, 2004 . Read the text of the speech in English. Excerpt: We must...