The Constitution Drafting Council in Thailand Wednesday presented the new draft constitution, which will be put to a referendum later this month. The 2007 draft, which would replace the 1997 constitution , calls for national elections...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Wednesday rejected a demand by Palestinian militants to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit [Times backgrounder; JURIST news...
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Tuesday that Maryland will not challenge a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit holding that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security...
UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel promised Tuesday that a tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri would be established, despite disagreement among...
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine held hearings Tuesday on a controversial April 2 decree by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordering the dissolution of parliament and new elections on May 27....
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his former bodyguard Johan Tarculovski went on trial Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The two men, the only Macedonians...
Arafat Rahman, the son of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , was arrested Monday on corruption allegations, according to local media. Zia's elder son Tarique Rahman was also arrested on arrested [JURIST...
A Croatian county court in Osijek issued indictments Monday for seven persons, including a former parliamentarian, on charges of war crimes committed against Serbs, including abduction, torture and murder, during Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia. Prosecutors...
Ecuador's Supreme Court has upheld a 2006 ruling allowing charges against former Ecuadorian President Gustavo Noboa for mishandling debt negotiations worth billions of dollars while in office from 2000 until 2003. The Court held Wednesday...
A Philippine military tribunal sentenced 54 military officers to seven years and six months in jail Wednesday in connection with a failed mutiny in July 2003 in which 300 soldiers from elite special forces took over buildings...
