The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Thursday announced a new proposal that would allow the agency to regulate broadband Internet access despite a recent court ruling striking down a key part of the proposed FCC National Broadband Plan . The new approach classifies broadband transmission as a telecommunications service subject to FCC regulation. FCC General Counsel [...]
A federal judge ruled Thursday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani must attend the opening of his trial, requiring him to submit to strip searches he claims are traumatic. Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled that Ghailani is competent to waive his right [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday issued an emergency stay blocking the release of nine individuals accused of plotting to overthrow the US government as part of the Hutaree militia . Judge Victoria Roberts of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan had granted bail Monday, ruling [...]
The Spanish government on Thursday extradited pilot Julio Alberto Poch to Argentina to face trial for his alleged role in the nation's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . Poch was a navy officer at Argentina's Naval Mechanics School , one of the most notorious detention centers of the military dictatorship, and is believed to have piloted flights [...]
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced on Wednesday that the island nation of Seychelles will create a UN-supported center to prosecute suspected pirates. The center will accept and try pirates captured by the European Union Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR) off the coast of Somalia and surrounding areas. This will be the [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says the question of whether the government can criminally prosecute an attorney for representing a client said by the executive to be a member of al Qaeda is unfortunately unresolved under current law…. Noted pundits Bill [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested a South Florida man accused of involvement in Guatemala's December 1982 massacre that left more than 250 dead. Authorities claim that Gilberto Jordan illegally concealed his past military service and involvement in the killings on his US immigration forms. Jordan is accused of being one [...]
An Indian court on Monday sentenced to death Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab , the lone gunmen to survive the three-day siege of Mumbai in November 2008 that killed 166. Kasab was convicted of murder and waging war against India on Monday for his role in the terrorist attack, which was allegedly coordinated by Pakistani militant [...]
A French appeals court on Monday refused a US extradition request for Iranian engineer Majid Kakavand, accused of illegally exporting electronic equipment to Iran for military use. Kakavand was detained in France in March 2009 after the US government issued a warrant for his arrest. Kakavand was indicted in April on charges of purchasing thousands [...]
The appellate division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday acquitted Serb wartime commander Milos Stupar of genocide charges in connection with his alleged involvement in killings committed at the Srebrenica prison camp in 1995. The verdict of the appellate court overturns a 40-year prion sentence stemming from a 2008 trial during which [...]
