Bahukutumbi Raman : "From the night of November 26 to early morning on November 29, 160 Indians and 25 foreigners were killed in an unprecedented terrorist strike in Mumbai, which is viewed as India's economic capital. The terrorists, who came by sea, opened fire indiscriminately on passers-by and then occupied two leading hotels and a [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled Thursday that there was no human rights violation when a French school expelled two students for refusing to remove their headscarves . Two French nationals, Belgin Dogru and Esma-Nur Kervanci , were expelled from school in 1999 at ages 11 and 12, respectively, when they refused [...]
The Taiwan Taipei District Court on Thursday sentenced former head of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau Yeh Sheng-mao to 10 years in prison on corruption charges. Yeh was convicted of corruption, concealing a government file, and leaking confidential information to former President Chen Shui-bian . In addition to the prison sentence, Yeh will also [...]
Two US congressman on Thursday sent a letter to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey , calling on him to explain comments he made Wednesday about pardoning US counterterrorism officials for their controversial policies. Mukasey told reporters at a news conference that he did not see a need to issue a blanket pardon because there was [...]
The European Court of First Instance on Thursday annulled a July decision of the Council of the European Union to place the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) on the list of terrorist organizations and freeze its assets for the third time since the court's similar decision in December 2006. The court recognized as valid [...]
Israeli police Thursday forcibly removed 250 settlers who had barricaded themselves inside the four-story so-called House of Peace (Beit HaShalom) on the West Bank that the Israeli Supreme Court last month ordered cleared pending judicial resolution of a dispute over land ownership. The raid lasted an hour , with resistance by the settlers, and there [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday ruled on six Chechnya disappearance cases , ordering Russia to pay a total of €320,000 to the relatives of the victims. In each case, the applicants, all Russian nationals, alleged their relatives disappeared between 2001-2003 after being taken into custody by members of the Russian military and [...]
Lawyers for former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre filed a complaint with the court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in October to prevent his trial for crimes against humanity in Senegal from moving forward, according to an AFP report. The move is a response to 14 Chadian and Senegalese citizens filing complaints [...]
Robert Paterson : "The Canadian parliamentary system has an unwritten constitution based like the Common Law upon precedent and practice. It is also a system of indirect democracy where the voters elect a "Parliament," but do not vote for a Prime Minister. To operate as a government, a Prime Minister has to have the effective [...]
The Iraqi presidential council on Thursday approved a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that sets a 2011 deadline for the withdraw of US troops but also approved an additional law calling for a national referendum on the pact in July 2009. The approval of the council, comprising President Jalal Talabani and two vice presidents, was [...]
