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 [...]
Four Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility have been released from US custody Thursday and transferred to Bermuda . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that the four detainees had been cleared for release by the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force and were transferred pursuant to an agreement with the government of [...]
Robert Amsterdam : "This summer, a second trial is being carried out by the Russian government against Mikhail Khodorkovsky – once Russia's most successful oil executive and opposition financier. As may be expected, the good news continues to come from outside of Russia, where some rule-of-law courts are able to fairly view the evidence. On [...]
US authorities on Wednesday charged 24 individuals with looting Native American artifacts from public land. The accused are charged with violations of the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in connection with the theft of 256 artifacts worth $335,685. The ARPA prohibits the excavation and exchange [...]
Palau President Johnson Toribiong told the Associated Press Thursday that his offer to accept 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay was motivated by human rights concerns and not by the Chinese government's reaction. The Palau government, which grants diplomatic recognition to Taiwan, not China, reportedly granted the US government's request to resettle the detainees [...]
Chinese human rights lawyer Li Fangping has challenged a government mandate requiring Internet filter software on all new personal computers, according to media reports Thursday. Fangping demanded public hearings from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to determine if the requirement is lawful and reasonable. The software, called "Green Dam," blocks web content [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday that the Turkish government is responsible for the death of a woman at the hands of her ex-husband. The court found that in failing to prevent the woman's death, Turkey had violated her right to life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of Australian National University College of Law says that until the United States is prepared to acknowledge that it has a continuing responsibility for some of the Guantanamo detainees once they have been released and shows a willingness to resettle at least some in the US, the future for many [...]
The US House Judiciary Committee voted 29-0 Wednesday to approve four articles of impeachment against US district court judge Samuel Kent based on his conviction for obstruction of justice in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of his secretary and former case manager. The articles charged that Kent had "engaged in conduct … incompatible with [...]
