Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told Australian news service Sky News Wednesday that his government is considering bringing a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for alleged incitement of genocide. Rudd characterized some of Ahmadinejad's comments in recent years regarding Israel and Zionism and denying the Jewish Holocaust [...]
Awzar Thi : "May 10 was supposed to be a big day for Burma's military, the day that it legitimated itself through the ballot box. On that day, millions of eligible voters were supposed to come and freely express their approval of a constitution that would guarantee the army a quarter of seats in parliament [...]
The Federal Court of Malaysia Wednesday rejected an appeal by five ethnic Indian protesters being detained by Malaysian authorities under a controversial security law. The five detainees, prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) , had appealed a judgment by a lower court which found that their detention was legal under Malaysian law. [...]
US District Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore ordered retrials for three former Enron Broadband Services executives Monday. Scheduled to begin in November, the new series of trials follows a refusal by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to dismiss remaining charges against the three after a jury failed to reach a verdict on [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Tuesday that it has transferred a former Bosnian Croat military commander who was convicted of war crimes related to the forced relocation and detention of Muslims during the 1991-95 Balkan Wars to an Italian prison to serve out his sentence. In 2003, the ICTY convicted [...]
A Pakistani court Tuesday cleared Pakistan People's Party leader Asif Ali Zardari of charges that he smuggled antiquities out of the country following the ouster of his now-late wife former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1997. AP has more. In March, a Pakistani court cleared Zardari of charges related to his alleged involvement in [...]
Courts in Kosovo's northern districts have been left in legal limbo since the Assembly of Kosovo's February unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, the Steering Council of the Kosovo Judges' Association said Monday. The Council expressed concern that courts in the region were unable to guarantee the protection of peoples' legal rights, a situation [...]
A federal judge Monday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman against a judge who asked her to remove her niqab in court. Ginnnah Muhammad had alleged that Illinois small claims Judge Paul Paruk said he had to see her face to gauge her veracity and threatened to dismiss her case if she [...]
Two former State Department officials lambasted the Bush administration for ineffectiveness in combating corruption in Iraq in a hearing Monday before the US Senate Democratic Policy Committee . Retired Associate Superior Court Judge Arthur Brennan, who was briefly Director of the Office of Accountability and Transparency (OAT) at the US Embassy in Baghdad, testified that [...]
A British civil lawsuit against members of the Real IRA alleged to have been involved with the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland opened in a Dublin court Monday. The trial, which began in the Belfast High Court in April, was moved to Dublin so that the High Court could hear evidence from law enforcement [...]
