The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday indicted four former Khmer Rouge leaders. The indicted leaders, Ieng Sary , Ieng Thirith , Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea , have been detained since 2007 and are charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and offenses under the [...]
The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that communication between in-house lawyers and management is not protected by legal professional privilege during competition investigations by the European Commission (EC) . The ECJ found that, in order for the privilege to exist, the lawyer must be independent, which is not the case for in-house lawyers who [...]
A Long Island man was charged Wednesday with providing funds to the man who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in May. The US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI and New York Police Department filed an indictment against Mohammad Younis, charging him with conducting an unlicensed money [...]
Senegalese security forces are engaging in systematic torture, often leading to the death of those detained, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International (AI) . AI claims that this leaves victims’ families with no recourse against security forces because the prosecution of members of the security forces must be approved by the ministries [...]
A court in Kyrgyzstan issued the first convictions Wednesday in connection with the June 2010 ethnic violence , handing down prison terms for eight ethnic Uzbeks. The case stems from the murder of a Kyrgyz police officer during the violence, which resulted in the deaths of 309 people, with an additional 2,000 reportedly injured. Judge [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday denied an appeal by the Danish company Lego to restore its EU trademark for its interlocking toy bricks. The court held that the company’s red eight-stud brick is not registrable as a community trademark and “is a sign consisting exclusively of the shape of goods necessary to [...]
US federal judges reached an agreement Tuesday on a pilot project allowing certain civil trials to be televised . Federal appellate judge David Sentelle said that, while the details still needed to be worked out, the judges agreed that the faces of jurors and witnesses will not be recorded and that either party to the [...]
A French court on Wednesday declined to extradite Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo to Rwanda to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The court also granted his release . The ruling is due to suspicions that Rwamucyo would not receive a fair trial in Rwanda, and is consistent with France’s handling [...]
UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan Muhamed Chande Othman called Tuesday for a thorough and transparent investigation into the early September attack in Northern Darfur that left many civilians dead. The Janjaweed militia is suspected of conducting an attack on civilians in a Tarabat village marketplace, killing more than 37 [...]
Police in the Netherlands violated a Dutch magazine’s right to free expression by compelling disclosure of documentary evidence relating to anonymous sources, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday. The unanimous ruling centered around a 2002 feature on illegal street racing published in the Dutch edition of Autoweek , a property of Sanoma [...]
