A court in Thailand sentenced former Indian financier Rakesh Saxena to 10 years in prison on Friday for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from a bank in Thailand during the 1990s. The Bangkok South Criminal Court, found Saxena guilty of five counts of securities fraud between 1992 and 1996 when he was an adviser [...]
Idaho Deputy Attorney General Michael Gilmore said on Thursday that he will ask the warden of an Idaho prison to change the prison policy that limits public access to executions. The Associated Press and 16 other newspaper agencies have filed suit to gain full access to the proceedings. The US Court of Appeals for the [...]
A judge for the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Apple against smartphone rival Motorola . Judge Richard Posner, sitting in as a trial judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois , dismissed the case with prejudice, saying that [...]
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday reported the court’s Completion Strategy to the UN Security Council . In his address , Brammertz updated the Council on the progress of pending cases, including the cases of Ratko Mladic , a former Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, and [...]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe called Friday on South African officials to oppose an investigation into allegations of human rights violations committed by members of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party. Mugabe denied the allegations , suggesting they were racially motivated. In May, a South African court ordered an investigation into the allegations. Judge [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay declared on Friday that US drone strikes in Pakistan raise grave legal concerns under international law. Pillay expressed particular concern that the drone strikes do not comport with the international law principles of proportionality and distinction. Pillay also called for an investigation into civilian deaths caused by [...]
The government of Quebec on Friday announced that it is filing a lawsuit against tobacco companies to recover the costs of treating citizens with tobacco-related illnesses. The government indicated that the lawsuit will be based on the companies’ failure to report health risks to citizens. Under Canada’s national healthcare, each province bears the cost of [...]
Michel Frost, the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, renewed his call on Wednesday to UN member states to cease the deportation of Haitian citizens to Haiti . In his report that was presented to the General Assembly of the UN Human Rights Council , Frost revealed that there has [...]
Army Col. Denise Lind on Friday denied a motion to dismiss eight of the 22 charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly transferring vast amounts of classified information to Wikileaks . The defense had argued that the charges against Manning were unconstitutionally vague. Manning’s trial is scheduled to begin in September, but Lind indicated it [...]
Lawyers for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo requested on Thursday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) postpone the confirmation of charges hearing which is scheduled for June 18. The lawyers argued that if the hearing in their client’s case takes places as planned, Gbagbo will not receive a fair trial. They claimed that Gbagbo’s [...]
