Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Monday filed a motion renewing his claim that that International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) should drop charges against him because of a deal he made with former US ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke . Karadzic has claimed that Holbrooke promised him immunity from prosecution if he [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and other world leaders on Monday condemned a North Korea nuclear weapon test held earlier in the day. The test violates a 2006 UN Security Council ban on nuclear or missile tests by the country, and the body announced Monday that it would immediately hold a meeting to discuss the test. In statement by Ki-moon's spokesperson, he said he [...]
UK Armed Services Minister Bob Ainsworth said Sunday that the British military is again considering whether to change a policy that prohibits women from serving in "close combat" positions. The review, mandated every eight years by a European Union Equal Treatment Directive barring discrimination in the workplace, last took place in 2002 and resulted in a [...]
A Washington State woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer has become the first person to commit physician-assisted suicide under the state's Death with Dignity Act . Linda Fleming had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and on Thursday took barbiturates prescribed by a doctor, dying approximately half an hour later. In a statement issued through Washington advocacy [...]
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday rejected calls for his government to provide full humanitarian access to Tamil displacement camps in the country, saying the camps still needed to be screened for rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) insurgents. On Saturday, Rajapaksa had issued a joint statement with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon which said that aid agencies would [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that he will seek to amend a 2008 amnesty law because its application has allowed too many accused of corruption and terrorism to be released. Speaking before both Shia and Sunni leaders, al-Maliki said the law had been inappropriately changed from the version originally drafted by the government. [...]
Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun apparently committed suicide Saturday by leaping off a 30-foot cliff. Roh and members of Roh's family were under investigation by the Republic of Korea's Supreme Prosecutor's Office for allegedly accepting bribes while in office. A spokesperson for South Korea's Ministry of Justice announced that the investigation would not continue [...]
The first person convicted under Canada's post-9/11 terrorism law was sentenced Friday to 36 months in prison, and released by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in consideration of the time he has already served in prison since his arrest in 2006. The yet-unnamed man will be on three-year probation and placed under a ten-year [...]
USA, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., US Supreme Court, May 22, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Her Majesty the Queen v. Desire Munyaneza, Superior Court of Quebec, May 22, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
