Israeli soldiers regularly beat and abuse Palestinian detainees even after they have been arrested and no longer pose a threat, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) alleged in a report published Sunday. The group based its finding on testimony it obtained from some 90 detainees covering the period June 2006 and October 2007:Abuse [...]
The Italian judge presiding over the corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his former lawyer David Mills said Friday accord to Reuters that hearings in the case will continue despite a request for her removal by Berlusconi's lawyers. Berlusconi's legal team claimed judge Nicoletta Gandus was biased after she commented on laws [...]
Serbian officials transferred former Bosnian Serb police commander Stojan Zupljanin to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Saturday after the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court refused his appeal against extradition. Serbian Minister of Justice Dusan Petrovic approved the transfer Friday. Zupljanin was arrested earlier this month. He was indicted [...]
The trial of British national Simon Mann , charged with participating in an alleged coup attempt against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004, concluded on Friday with his defense lawyer seeking leniency. Mann, who has claimed that Sir Mark Thatcher was involved in the plot , testified that he was “only a [...]
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Friday that juvenile defendants in the state have a constitutional right to a jury trial. The Court found that recent changes to the Kansas Juvenile Justice Code made juvenile proceedings "more akin to an adult prosecution" in which jury trials are constitutionally provided under Section 10 of the Kansas [...]
In the Matter of L.M., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 20, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Bush administration on Friday invoked executive privilege in refusing to turn over documents to the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee now investigating what it claims to be a politically-motivated decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny California permission to implement its own vehicle emission standards. Administration officials have refused to [...]
European Union government leaders meeting in Brussels Friday directed member states to draft tougher border security legislation to curb the growing problem of illegal immigration in Europe. The security overhaul is aimed at setting common security standards at airports, harbors and border checkpoints in an effort to filter out illegal immigrants and to catch criminals [...]
Anne Weismann "In CREW v. Office of Administration, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an opinion on June 16, 2008, dismissing CREW's complaint on the ground that the Office of Administration (OA), a component of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), is not an agency and therefore not subject to the Freedom of [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Friday refused to move the trial of suspected war criminal Ildephonse Hategekimana to the Rwandan domestic courts. The request had been made by the prosecutor's office and the Rwandan government, but was objected to by Hategekimana's defense and human rights groups filing amicus briefs on his behalf. According to [...]
