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The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the Philippines government Friday to drop sedition charges against Daily Tribune publisher Ninez Cacho-Olivarez and columnists Ramon Seneres and Herman Tiu-Laurel. The journalists were charged with...

The trial of 22-year-old Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil , who has been in detention since November on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog , has begun in the Mediterranean city...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his government might have to review relations with countries that criticized Saddam Hussein's execution , calling last Friday's hanging a domestic affair. In a speech in Baghdad celebrating the anniversary of...

JURIST Guest Columnist George Williams of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that although Australians have historically shied away from establishing a national Bill of Rights to protect individual liberties, the recent proliferation...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Paul Halliday of the University of Virginia Department of History says that before signing the Military Commissions Act suspending the writ of habeas corpus for alien "enemy combatants," President Bush should reflect on the English experience...

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) presented a report to the Australian Parliament Wednesday recommending that references to the term "sedition" in the new Australian anti-terrorism laws be removed....

Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Tuesday that he is willing to revise Australia's new sedition laws , particularly the use of the word "sedition," after the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) ...

Australia's three major news organizations have submitted a joint report to the Australian Law Reform Commission , the independent federal statutory agency charged with conducting official inquiries into areas for possible legal reform, slamming the late...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Philip Ruddock, Attorney-General of Australia, outlines Australia's recently strengthened counter-terror laws, describing them as an appropriate, proportionate and balanced response by the Australian Government to emerging security threats... Following the terrorist attacks on the London transport...

The Manila Daily Tribune reported Saturday that it has been charged with sedition in the wake of the Friday lifting of President Gloria Arroyo's state of emergency . The offices of the paper,...