A member of the newly formed UK coalition government indicated Thursday that the extradition of alleged hacker Gary McKinnon to the US will be delayed. Home Secretary Theresa May considered an adjournment request from McKinnon's legal team and agreed to delay a scheduled judicial review in order to determine if he is medically fit for [...]
The US Department of Defense announced on Thursday that US Forces-Afghanistan has launched an investigation into allegations that a "small number" of soldiers are responsible for the unlawful deaths of three civilians in Afghanistan. The Army's Criminal Investigation Command began the investigation earlier this month after receiving credible information from the soldiers' unit. No charges [...]
The Legislative Council of the Parliament of New South Wales on Thursday voted 26-3 to end further debate on a bill to ban the wearing of the burqa and other face veils in public. The bill , proposed by Christian Democrat Fred Nile , would have banned the wearing of the burqa in Australia's most [...]
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus on Wednesday released the 2010 International Piracy Watch List naming China, Russia, Canada, Spain, and Mexico as the worst countries for protecting copyrighted information. The bipartisan caucus also released a list of the top websites hosted overseas providing unauthorized access to copyrighted material. The report stressed the risk posed to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dave Sidhu, founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative (DNSI) and a fellow at the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, says that the soon-likely-to-be-complete domination of the US Supreme Court by graduates of two Ivy League American law schools is cause for considerable concern, despite elite contentions to the contrary… [...]
Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, attended a lecture held by Vjosa Osmani, Pitt Law L.L.M '05 and advisor to the President of Kosovo on Legal and International Affairs… A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on Kosovo's path to independence and the legal issues currently facing the country. At the [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday banned all UN employees from using cellular devices while driving in an effort to take the prohibition against cell phone use global. Ban is teaming up with US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, US Ambassador Susan Rice , and Jennifer Smith, president and co-founder of a national advocacy group, [...]
The government of Thailand on Wednesday imposed a curfew on Bangkok and other areas of the country in response to violence that erupted when the leader of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship , also known as the red shirts , announced an end to the two-month long conflict in Bangkok and surrendered to [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday affirmed the contempt conviction of Vojislav Seselj , a Serbian politician and former president of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) . Trial Chamber II found Seselj guilty of contempt last year for authoring a book revealing pertinent information about several [...]
Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday ended his two-day hunger strike after a spokesperson for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev indicated that Medvedev was familiar with a complaint Khodorkovsky made regarding the three-month extension of his detention. On Monday, Khodorkovsky sent an open letter to Russia's Supreme Court contending that Russian courts are ignoring [...]
