Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali", denied involvement in the killing of Shi'ite civilians at a demonstration during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Al-Majid is charged with crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the violent suppression of a predominately Shi'a protest in southern [...]
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Sunday that parliament would continue the process to ratify the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon , despite an Irish referendum which rejected the treaty last week . Miliband said that even though the Treaty requires unanimous approval by all 27 EU member states, [...]
Officials from Pakistani co-ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will soon present an impeachment motion against President Pervez Musharraf, a PML-N MP told a National Assembly meeting Sunday. PML-N and coalition partner Pakistan People's Party (PPP) officials have disagreed on how to limit or amend Musharraf's powers, with the PML-N generally favoring resignation or impeachment [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that by upholding habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo detainees in Boumediene, the US Supreme Court has fulfilled its constitutional duty to check and balance the other two branches of government, discharging its mandate to interpret the Constitution and say "what the law is"… [...]
The British military has held the last two Iraqis in its custody without charge or access to lawyers for five years, similar to US detentions at Guantanamo, lawyers for the men alleged in a report published in the Independent Sunday. Faisal Attiyah Nassar al-Saadoon and Khalaf Hussain Mufdhi, both supposedly involved in the deaths of [...]
Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan told the Associated Press Sunday that despite the end of the "long march" the country's lawyers' movement will continue protesting for the reinstatement of judges ousted after President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency law in November 2007. The "long march" began in Lahore Monday and ended with [...]
The top judge in South Africa's Cape High Court accused judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Friday of political bias after they filed a complaint with the country's judicial disciplinary body earlier this month against him. The Constitutional Court judges said in a unusual public statement that they were filing the complaint against [...]
Shayana Kadidal : "It was in February of 2002 that the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel brought the first habeas case in federal court on behalf of detainees held at Guantánamo. Yesterday, June 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the part of the Military Commissions Act that attempted to block [...]
Approximately 870 inmates escaped from the main prison in Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan Friday when members of the Taliban conducted a bomb and rocket attack. Prison officials said that nine police were killed. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) estimates that the number of escaped prisoners is closer to 1,100. A Taliban spokesperson said [...]
Netherlands Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said Friday that he would press on with ratification of the the EU reform treaty formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon even after Irish voters rejected it in a referendum Thursday. The Irish vote casts a shadow over the future of the pact as it must be approved [...]
