Members of the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) are pushing for legislation to limit the ability of the media to report on matters affecting national security, according to an Independent report Monday. Under the current system, news editors may seek guidance from Defence Advisory Notices (DA-Notices) when considering whether to publish information that [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases. In Chambers v. United States , the Court will consider whether failure to report to prison constitutes a "violent felony" for purposes of sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminals Act (ACCA) . Petitioner Deondery Chambers pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession [...]
The Muslim Defender Team (TPM), the group of lawyers representing the three men executed Saturday for the 2002 Bali bombings , said Monday that it will file charges against Indonesia's attorney general, alleging that the execution process violated the bombers' human rights. TPM argues that Indonesia violated human rights standards when authorities denied the families [...]
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the capital cases of Kelly v. California (07-11073) and Zamudio v. California (07-11425) . Petitioners in the cases were seeking new guidelines for "victim impact" evidence presented to juries during sentencing. Petitioners Douglas Kelly and Samuel Zamudio sought to remand the sentencing phases of their murder convictions [...]
A Bangladeshi court on Monday ordered three members of the cabinet of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia to jail on corruption charges. Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad, and Saifur Rahman, who served as industry, social welfare and finance ministers respectively, allegedly ignored lower bidders when they awarded a Chinese company a contract to [...]
German officials on Sunday arrested an aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame in connection with the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarima that touched off the infamous Rwanda genocide . Rose Kabuye , an official in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) , was arrested under a European warrant issued by French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere in [...]
Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama have begun working on a plan to hold criminal trials in US courts for a large number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a Monday report by the Associated Press. Under the plan, which would also entail the end of Guantanamo-based military commissions , the majority of detainees would [...]
The Judges Association of Serbia (JAS) has criticized a set of proposed judicial reforms slated for debate in the country's parliament beginning Tuesday. The Serbian Ministry of Justice and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission to Serbia have been working with the judges on the Draft Law on Judges of Serbia [...]
John Podesta , former White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton and now co-chair of the transition team for US president-elect Barack Obama said in an interview on Fox News Sunday over the weekend that Obama is making plans to issue executive orders to reverse some of the more contentious policies implemented during [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder, currently teaching European Union law at Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that while the European Commission, aided most recently by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, has taken steps to encourage and even mandate increased state data retention for more efficient crime-fighting in [...]
