The Federal Court of Canada Monday dismissed an application by two Guantanamo Bay detainees requesting access to Canadian interrogation records. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian with landed immigrant status in Canada, and Ahcene Zemiri , an Algerian permanent resident of Canada, sought disclosure of records of interrogations conducted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) [...]
Speaker for Italy's Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini said Monday that Italy will not accept detainees released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Fini made the announcement after a meeting with US House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in Rome, and it contradicts earlier statements by Italian defense minister Ignazio La Russa in which La Russa said the country may [...]
Paul Stuart Haberman : "A decision like the one recently handed down by the Common Pleas Court of Erie County, Ohio in Oliver v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al. was long overdue. For many years, college athletes that dare seek the guiding hand of counsel in negotiation with professional sports teams have done so [...]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Tuesday began the trial of former Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek-Eav . Kaing, also known as "Duch," faces charges of murder and torture in addition to charges of crimes against humanity and violations of the Geneva Conventions. Kaing is best known for running the Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp in Phnom Penh [...]
The administration of US President Barack Obama on Monday proposed the development of a binding international treaty to regulate global mercury levels. The announcement by US State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development Daniel Reifsnyder came at the 25th Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environmental Forum , a meeting of global [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, says that until we recognize that smart people can and will do some very dumb and even crooked things, no amount of regulation will stop the financial shenanigans that are wrecking America's economy…. Not too long ago, [...]
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said Monday that additional charges will be filed against Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky . The charges include allegations of embezzlement and theft, contending that Khodorkovsky and a group of investors embezzled more than $100 million from his former company Yukos . Additional charges will also be filed against Khodorkovsky's [...]
The government of Pakistan reached an agreement Monday with Islamic militants in the Pakistani North West Frontier Province (NWFP) area of Swat to implement Islamic Sharia law , according to Pakistani government officials. The implementation of Sharia law in Swat is contingent upon peace between the Pakistani government and Islamic militants linked with the Taliban [...]
Manuel Alvarez-Rivera : "When voters in Spain's Basque Country go to the polls next March 1st to elect members of the self-governing community's 75-seat regional parliament, they will have a choice of fifteen parties taking part in the contest. However, for the first time since the region regained its devolved government in 1979-80, following the [...]
Counterterrorism policies adopted by countries around the world since 2001 pose a "serious threat to the integrity of the international human rights legal framework," according to a report issued Monday by a special panel of human rights experts convened by the International Commission of Jurists . The panel, Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and [...]
