The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Saturday announced that three more detainees have been released from the Guantanamo Bay prison. Two Uzbek detainees were transferred to Ireland and one Yemeni national was transferred to Yemen. According to the DOJ's release: As directed by the President's Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task [...]
Police used unnecessary force to disperse demonstrations at the Pittsburgh Group of 20 (G-20) Summit , several civil liberties groups said Friday. Witold "Vic" Walczak, Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) said that police deployed throughout the city in a manner that prevented lawful demonstrations , suppressed free speech and [...]
The Obama administration may not be able to meet the January deadline set early this year for the closure of Guantanamo Bay , senior administration officials said Friday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials told AP, the Washington Post, CNN and other media outlets that the difficulty in finding host countries for detainees who [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday denied that Iran had broken nuclear development regulations in respect to a newly-disclosed nuclear facility, insisting that the applicable disclosure rules only require notice six months before nuclear material is introduced into the facility for the first time . At a press conference Friday, US, British, French, and German leaders [...]
German President Horst Koehler on Friday signed the EU reform treaty, known as the Lisbon Treaty , completing the country's problematic ratification process. The signature was the final step for ratification, after the Bundesrat gave final approval earlier this week to a bill setting out the process for ratification. Although both houses of Germany's parliament [...]
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday upheld the admissibility of the case against former Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga . Katanga had argued that charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against him should be dropped because he was being tried for the same crimes in the Democratic Republic [...]
The trial of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert opened Friday on charges of fraud and corruption that led to his resignation last year. Olmert is accused of illegally accepting cash contributions from American businessman Moshe Talansky, double billing travel expenses to the state and charitable donors, and giving his former law partner Uri Messer [...]
The UK High Court on Friday upheld a law that permits mandatory retirement policies for workers who reach the age of 65, but said that there is a "compelling" case for raising the age above 65. The challenge to the default retirement age (DRA) was originally brought by Age Concern and Help the Aged . [...]
The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that a ban on nighttime assemblies is an unconstitutional violation of the right to free assembly. The court gave the National Assembly until June 30, 2010, to amend Article 10 of the Assembly and Demonstration Law , which bans outdoor assemblies and demonstrations prior to sunrise and after [...]
Christian Ehret, Pitt Law '11, observed a G-20 Resistance Project protest held by self-proclaimed anarchists in Pittsburgh on Thursday… I ventured down to the G-20 Resistance gathering in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon with the sole intention of finding out what motivated people to be there. I was rather pessimistic, and expected [...]
