Mexican rights activists are pressing Mexican President Felipe Calderón to sign a bill lightening penalties for illegal migrants found in the country after the measure passed the lower house of the Mexican Congress Tuesday. Prison terms of one and a half to six years under current law would be reduced to fines of roughly $745 [...]
Two judges of Kenya's High Court , the court's top judicial authority, were fired from their positions Friday after two investigatory tribunals found them guilty of corruption. The judges had already been suspended while their cases were reviewed. A third High Court judge was reinstated after none of the allegations against him were found to [...]
Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. of the US Eastern District of Louisiana ruled again Friday that the US Army Corps of Engineers cannot claim immunity from suit in connection with damages suffered by plaintiffs by virtue of alleged defects in the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO) . Duval said that the outlet was a shipping channel [...]
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf "may accept the restoration of judges if the government amends the constitution," a spokesman for his political party said Saturday, according to AP. On Friday former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, leader of the subordinate party in the country's new coalition government, said that the judges would be restored May 12 [...]
Deborah Colson : " 'America tells the whole world that it has freedom and justice. I do not see that…You do not give us the least bit of humanity…Give me a just court…Try me with a just law.' Those were the words of Salim Ahmed Hamdan at his military commission proceeding in Guantanamo Bay this [...]
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz filed an appeal Friday against the court's acquittal of former Kosovo Prime Minister and Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj . Brammertz asked that the case be retried before a different chamber of the tribunal, arguing that prosecution was not allowed the [...]
Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and all other judges removed by President Pervez Musharraf last November after his declaration of emergency rule will be reinstated on May 12, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) reached an agreement on reinstating the [...]
Italian dairy giant Parmalat SpA Friday reached a settlement with shareholders, agreeing to issue 10.5 million shares of stock, valued at almost 24 million euros, to satisfy a securities fraud class action filed against the company. The suit was filed by investors in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York following [...]
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won a slim majority in Zimbabwe's contested March presidential election but not enough to avoid a run-off vote against current Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe , election officials said Friday. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had long delayed releasing the official results because of claimed "errors and miscalculations" [...]
Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will file for a third appeal, according to their lawyer. The three men – Mukhlas, Amrozi, and Imam Samudra – Wednesday gave separate review requests to the head Java prison where they are held and asked that these be [...]
