The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the US government can continue to withhold photos of alleged detainee abuse while it awaits a response from the US Supreme Court . The appellate-level decision followed a recent Supreme Court order granting the government a 30-day extension to appeal a ruling mandating [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday denied bail to Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black , leaving him the option of filing a request in district court. The one-page denial was issued by Justice John Paul Stevens in response to Black's recent request for bail pending appeal . In their request , Black's lawyers argued that [...]

The government of Sri Lanka has failed for the past two decades to redress alleged human-rights violations such as torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report published Thursday. As early as 1991, the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances had received more than 15,000 reports of enforced [...]

Of 113 terrorism cases in the Netherlands between September 11, 2001 and 2008, only 27 have led to convictions according to a report Thursday in the NRC Handelsblad . The report states that some of those convictions have been overturned on appeal. The conviction rate for terror crimes, which are prosecuted under the 2004 Crimes [...]

Many human rights abuses that occurred during the war in Kosovo have gone uninvestigated and unpunished, Amnesty International (AI) , told Deutsche Welle Wednesday, which was the 10-year anniversary of the conflict's end. An AI report released earlier this week found that, as of April, nearly 2,000 people remain unaccounted for from the conflict. AI [...]

The Peruvian Congress voted Wednesday to suspend controversial land laws for 90 days, in an effort to quell indigenous protests that led to a violent clash last week when police attempted to disperse groups blocking access routes. Peruvian Prime Minister Yehude Simon announced Thursday that negotiations with indigenous groups over the controversial land usage laws [...]

Othman v. Council of the European Union, et al., European Union Court of First Instance, June 11, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A South Korean court ruled Thursday that Microsoft violated antitrust regulations by packaging software with the Windows operating system, but dismissed requests for damages from two Korean software firms. The suit alleged that the company's packaging of MSN Messenger and Windows Media Player with their operating system caused financial damage to competitors Digito.com and Sanview [...]

The European Union Court of First Instance ruled Thursday that an EU-ordered asset freeze of a Jordanian terrorist suspect lacked judicial review, violating the suspect's fundamental rights. The assets of Muslim cleric Abu Qatada were frozen in 2001 pursuant to a UN Security Council resolution, which specified entities and persons who must be subjected to [...]

Kenya has until the end of August to establish a tribunal to try the leaders behind the 2007 post-election violence , former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan told the BBC Thursday. If the country does not meet the August deadline, which was originally set for March, Annan plans to give the International Criminal Court (ICC) a [...]