Ian Bancroft : “What was truly significant about the recent events in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar was the willingness of both presidents – Serbia’s Boris Tadić and Croatia’s Ivo Josipović – to apologize for crimes committed by the military forces of their respective countries; Tadić for the massacre of 260 Croats in 1991, [...]

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that illegal immigrants are eligible to receive in-state tuition benefits at California’s public colleges and universities. The plaintiffs in the class action suit, brought by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) , had alleged that an exemption in California Education Code section 68130.5(a) violates § 1623 of the [...]

Lebanese authorities on Monday arrested Syrian national and radical Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, less than a week after he was convicted of terrorism by a military court. Bakri was after a gunfire riddled car chase arrested in the northern city of Tripoli where he had been living. He was convicted in absentia last week [...]

A suspected Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war criminal was arrested Monday in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the end of 1992-95 Bosnian civil war . The Prosecutors Office for BiH announced that Dragan Crnogorac was arrested in the city of Banja Luka on suspicion for having committed genocide under Article 171 of the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two cases. In Tolentino v. New York , the court will determine whether the exclusionary rule prohibits police from using a defendant’s driving record compiled by the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles obtained after illegally stopping the defendant. The Court of Appeals of New York held [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Abbot v. United States that, in construing a federal statute imposing mandatory minimum sentences for drug trafficking crimes committed with guns, the minimum sentence contained in the statute applies unless another statute imposes a longer minimum sentence for the weapons charge. Defendants argued that their respective [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Alina Christova of the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel says the European Stabilization Mechanism, recently agreed upon in the European Union, is a welcome step towards a permanent, crisis-management system, but that additional measures must follow… Last month, Heads of State or Government of the European Union agreed on tougher [...]

A report revealing that US intelligence officials knowingly allowed Nazis to settle in US “safe havens” after World War II was released Saturday by the New York Times after being leaked by former Department of Justice (DOJ) officials. The 600-page report describes the actions of the DOJ’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), created in 1979 [...]

The EU has failed to hold member states legally accountable for their involvement in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program , according to a report published Monday by Amnesty International (AI) . In its report, entitled “Open Secret: Mounting Evidence of Europe’s Complicity in Rendition and Secret Detention,” AI said that limited [...]

Cuban officials on Saturday released the first of 13 dissident prisoners who refused to go into exile as part of an agreement reached between Cuba, Spain, and the Vatican. The prisoner, Arnoldo Ramos Lauzurique, was one of 52 prisoners captured as part of a 2003 tightening on dissent within the country. Of those 52 individuals, [...]