UK Home Secretary Theresa May announced Tuesday to the House of Commons that she would block the US extradition of British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon . Relying on Article 3 of the Human Rights Act concerning prohibition of torture, May announced she would stop McKinnon’s extradition . May’s decision rests upon Home Office medical reports [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sought dismissal of a suit by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee against Attorney General Eric Holder for failure to produce subpoenaed documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious . The lawsuit , filed in mid-August, requests a court order requiring Holder to deliver specific documents [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday vacated the conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan , Osama bin Laden’s former driver. Hamdan was convicted of conspiracy and material support for terrorism under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 . At issue in the case was whether the Military Commissions Act [...]
The UN’s top anti-crime official on Monday urged an integrated international response to target transnational crime syndicates which seek to avoid prosecution by moving to a new country when faced with increased law enforcement pressure. UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov said during a conference of parties to the UN [...]
European regulators led by the French National Commission on Computing and Freedom (CNIL) on Tuesday urged Google to clarify its updated privacy policy . Google’s new unified policy, which went into effect on March 1, outlines the company’s practices and procedures used to collect data from users as they browse Google-backed sites like YouTube, Gmail [...]
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday proposed legislation that would ban tobacco advertisements and public smoking and raise taxes on tobacco products. On his video blog Medvedev acknowledged that 44 million Russians—a third of the entire population—are nicotine dependent, making Russia the second largest tobacco market behind only China. The bill as proposed would [...]
Five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks do not have to attend court proceedings against them, a military judge ruled Monday. Army Col. James Pohl ruled that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi can elect not to attend [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Carasik of Western New England University School of Law says that, as chief justice of the Criminal Chamber of Guatemala’s Supreme Court, Cesar Barrientos has played a critical role in rebuilding the nation’s democratic institutions by upholding the rule of law and protecting human rights…
JURIST Guest Columnist Jennifer Levi, Transgender Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, says that constitutional protections must be consistently upheld by our courts regardless of how marginalized or unpopular the person to whom they apply may be…
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday opened the trial of Goran Hadzic , the last suspect to be tried by the court. Hadzic, one 161 people tried by the ICTY, is accused of committing crimes against humanity and violating the law and customs of war in contravention of articles 5 [...]
