The European Commission (EC) on Thursday announced new rules including a number of specific criteria that European banks seeking government assistance must meet. Under the new guidelines, banks are required to show they will become viable without further state support, banks and their owners are required to pay a share of the restructuring costs, and [...]
The FBI arrested and charged 44 people on a variety of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and corruption counts Thursday, including several local politicians. The FBI said that the investigation, which began as an investigation of a money laundering ring run by rabbis operating between New Jersey and Israel, only began to focus on public corruption [...]
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday reversed the contempt conviction of Astrit Haraqija and affirmed the conviction of Bajrush Morina for interfering with a witness during the trial of former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj . The two prominent Kosovar Albanians were found guilty of [...]
The Government of Sudan v. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army, Permanent Court of Arbitration, July 22, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Sudan.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should require the Sri Lankan government to address human rights abuses as a condition for a USD $2.5 billion emergency loan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. HRW claims that even after the 25-year civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [...]
The trial of Mumbai terror attack suspect Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab will continue in an Indian court, despite Kasab's admission of guilt , a judge ruled Thursday. Judge ML Tahilyani ruled that Kasab's confession was incomplete , but should be entered into the record. Kasab, the only captured gunman from the attacks, is faced with [...]
The US government has turned down requests from two separate UN investigators to visit the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay , the Washington Post reported Thursday. UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak and UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin had each requested access to the facility as well as detailed [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the pre-trial chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to determine the scope of its prosecutions "to thwart growing perceptions that court decisions are directed by the government." HRW's urging comes in response to a statement made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen [...]
The US Senate on Wednesday dismissed articles of impeachment for former federal judge Samuel Kent . The decision to terminate impeachment proceedings came after the White House accepted Kent's resignation last month. Kent resigned at the end of June after the US House of Representatives voted to impeach him . Kent is the first federal [...]
Computer chip maker Intel Corp. on Wednesday filed an appeal with the European Court of First Instance challenging a May European Commission (EC) ruling fining Intel €1.06 billion for violating European Union antitrust laws. The EC ruled that Intel violated the laws by giving computer companies rebates to purchase nearly all of their supplies from [...]
