Officials of Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) said Sunday that the government has sentenced five of its members to prison for participating in a march commemorating the mass student protests against the junta held on August 8, 1988. The 2008 protest, held in the Rakhine province, included 48 people, and police [...]
Belarusian officials released opposition politician Alexander Kozulin from prison Saturday after two years' detention for staging political protests. Kozulin was sentenced to more than five years in prison in July 2006 for leading unauthorized protests over the controversial re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko earlier that year. Authorities granted him temporary leave in February this [...]
The possibility that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will face impeachment increased Saturday as a spokesman for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) , the main ruling party in the country, said it will not protect him from criminal charges if he does not announce he will step down. AP quoted Pakistan foreign minister and PPP member [...]
Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre and eleven other rebel commanders were sentenced to death Friday in a Chadian court for crimes against the state after a mass trial in which dozens were tried. Habre is currently living in Senegal where he is to be eventually tried on charges for murder and torture. The court, lead [...]
Chinese media reported Friday that the Shanghai Municipal First Intermediate People's Court sentenced a former city official to death after being convicted of multiple corruption charges on Thursday, though the sentence will not be imposed for another two years. Former deputy director of the Shanghai Housing, Land and Resources Administration Bureau Yin Guoguan was suspected [...]
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic presented a formal request to the UN General Assembly Friday seeking a determination by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's February declaration of independence from Serbia. Jeremic sought to have the anticipated request included on the agenda for the General Assembly's upcoming 63rd Session in September. [...]
Betsy Apple and Nicolas Burniat : "Efforts by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts (ICC) to obtain an arrest warrant against the president of Sudan, Omar el-Bashir, for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide generated unprecedented uproar. In contrast, the tenth anniversary of the Rome Statute – the treaty that created [...]
The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Friday heard arguments in a case challenging a proposed peace agreement between the country's government and rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front . The proposal would grant expanded boundaries to the country's southern Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) , but opponents, including Mindanao Christians, say that [...]
Phillip Lemons, et al. v. Bill Bradbury, Sec. of the State of Oregon, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States of America v. Luis Posada Carriles, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
