Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim filed a lawsuit on Monday against a former aide who had accused him of sodomy on Saturday. In the lawsuit, Anwar said that the aide's allegations against him were baseless and politically motivated. Also on Monday, Anwar left the Turkish Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, where he had taken refuge , fearing for [...]
The US House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey for documents relating to the Valerie Plame leak scandal and other Committee investigations. The Committee specifically requested transcripts of interviews with US President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and five White House aides, all of whom were questioned during [...]
International leaders and human rights groups have criticized last Friday's presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe , calling the elections unfair and characterizing the government of newly sworn-in president Robert Mugabe as illegitimate. A committee of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) , the legislative branch of the African Union, reported Monday that killings, intimidation and violence were [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Steven Solomon of the World Health Organization and David Kaye of the UCLA School of Law say that while the recently concluded Dublin Cluster Bomb Treaty represents a major advance in the law of war, it is not a clear victory or clear defeat for anyone, including the United States… Late last [...]
Malaysian law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into a new sodomy complaint against opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim filed by an aide Saturday. Under Malaysian lawyer sodomy is punishable by 20 years in prison regardless of whether or not it was consensual. Anwar was convicted for sodomy in 1999 in the midst of political scandal [...]
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a Muslim group's complaint against Maclean's , Canada's leading newsmagazine, for publishing an article it alleged exposed Muslims to abuse or contempt. The Canadian Islamic Congress brought the complaint in respect of a 2006 article published by Mark Steyn entitled "The future belongs to Islam" . In its [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham (US Army, ret.), formerly assigned to the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, says that the US Supreme Court's opinion in Boumediene v. Bush is the consequence of mistaken policy decisions made over the past six years and is a clear instruction to [...]
Paul Helmke : "Over the years, I have seen the gun lobby effectively thwart efforts to pass many sensible gun laws by arguing that even modest gun control would lead down the path to a complete ban on gun ownership. It is the classic "slippery slope" argument, and it has served the gun lobby well [...]
Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary is set to appeal his provisional detention in a June 30 open hearing to be broadcast on radio and TV stations, according to documents released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, who served as minister for social affairs, [...]
The Afghan juvenile justice system is in serious need of reform, according to a study conducted by the Afghan Independent Human Right Commission (AIHRC) in collaboration with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) . The report, released on Thursday, says that child detainees in Afghanistan face ongoing rights violations and are deprived of access to education, [...]
