JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that US officials need to move forward to establish the rules and regulations necessary under the new Child Soldiers Accountability Act and set an example for other nations so that those who [...]
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced Tuesday that it has renewed claims and is seeking greater damages against 13 local cigarette importers in an effort to "curb the spreading of some serious health problems caused by cigarette smoking." The lawsuit, filed by MOH last year , seeks $34 billion in compensation, and is [...]
Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a Monday interview with Egyptian television that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should wait for Darfur peace efforts to play out before proceeding with a formal indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes . ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo filed ten charges against al-Bashir in [...]
A Chilean judge on Monday formally charged the youngest son, former secretary, and estate executor of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for maliciously making false or incomplete tax declarations. The charges relate to multi-million dollar accounts discovered in 2004 in the US-based Riggs National Bank . Lawyers for Marco Antonio Pinochet deny the charges. AP [...]
A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced fourteen members of the 88 Generation Students pro-democracy group to sixty-five years in prison, according to media reports . The sentencing was revealed by defendants' relatives after allegedly taking place in a court in Yangon's Insein Prison . The Thai website Irawaddy.org has published the names of the convicted [...]
Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama emphasized Monday in the wake of press reports that Obama has not made a decision regarding the future of the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and its prisoners, despite an earlier Associated Press story that Obama strategists had begun working on a plan to hold criminal trials in [...]
UK House of Lords judge Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury has said that when the new UK Supreme Court is constituted in 2009 replacing the current Law Lords, members of the country's Parliament should be able to question the justices because of the court's influence on British laws. Speaking last week at the annual meeting of [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced the transfer of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Algeria. The Department says that approximately 60 detainees at the base are eligible for release, and that it is negotiating with host countries to allow their transfer. It said the transfers were approved after a "comprehensive series of [...]
Taipei police arrested former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian on Tuesday following questioning by prosecutors about possible corruption and money laundering. Prosecutors are specifically questioning whether Chen, the former leader of the now-opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who resigned the presidency in May 2008, embezzled money from the state affairs fund. Chen has maintained his innocence [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive seeking access to e-mail records from the White House Office of Administration (OA) under the Freedom of Information [...]
