Thousands of Sri Lankans joined government-sponsored protests on Monday in opposition to a proposed UN Human Rights Council resolution concerning crimes that allegedly occurred during the country’s civil war. The protests, which were planned throughout 150 cities on the same day that the council began a four-week session in Geneva, were organized in an attempt [...]
Dr. Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association (IBA) on Sunday published the second in a series of reports examining the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . The report , “The ECCC- A Failure of Credibility,” asserts that the legitimacy of the ECCC is undermined, and, in order to promote [...]
The Supreme Court of Indonesia on Monday restored a 15-year prison sentence for radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his conviction on terrorism charges. Bashir appealed to the Supreme Court his conviction by the Jakarta High Court, which had reduced his prison sentence from 15 years to nine years , in an effort to [...]
Judge Carl Barbier of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana postponed the trial over the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill Monday, hours before it was set to begin, in order to give British Petroleum (BP) more time to reach a settlement agreement. Barbier adjourned the start of this multi-billion [...]
The Spanish Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision acquitted Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Monday of abuse of power charges . Garzon was charged with abusing power by ordering the exhumation of 19 mass graves in Spain in order to assemble a definitive national registry of Civil War victims, despite a 1977 law that provides amnesty [...]
The former governor of Delta state in Nigeria, James Ibori, pleaded guilty in a UK court on Monday to 10 counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud. The former governor of Nigeria’s oil-rich state is one of the wealthiest, most influential political figures in the country. Ibori was extradited to London to stand [...]
JURIST Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the allegedly irregular criminal proceedings going on against Americans working for NGOs in Egypt and an Iraqi vice president appear ordinary to the members of the criminal justice systems of those countries…
JURIST Guest Columnist Ottilia Maunganidze, Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, says that for the NTC to establish credibility it must put an end to unlawful detentions, make certain that any arrests are carried out by lawful police forces and ensure humane treatment of detainees…
A Cairo Criminal Court judge on Sunday adjourned the trial of 43 non-governmental organization (NGO) employees, including 16 Americans and 27 other foreigners, until April following the first day of the trial. Employees of the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House are being charged with promoting democracy in the country without [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday sentenced former president of the municipality of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milan Tupajic , to two months in prison on two counts of contempt for refusing to testify against Radovan Karadzic , founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) who is being tried [...]
