The Canadian Department of Justice has moved to block a Canadian Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) public hearing investigating the country's military detainee transfer process in Afghanistan , the Globe and Mail reported Monday. The government filed papers in Canada's Federal Court Friday arguing that the MPCC lacks jurisdiction to conduct investigations into military operational [...]
Zimbabwe's High Court rejected a bid Monday by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to compel the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) to immediately release the results of the country's March 29 presidential election . Last week, the High Court ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit and agreed to expedite the case [...]
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger on Monday urged the US military to allow the introduction of outside evidence during enemy combatant review hearings at the Bagram Temporary Internment Facility . Kellenberger, who was in Afghanistan for a seven-day mission to meet with senior Afghan leaders and US military officials, praised [...]
Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings told the lead prosecutor in the case that they will not seek a presidential pardon after they exhaust the appeals process, the prosecutor said on Monday. Lawyers for the three militants said the pardon process is distinct from the [...]
The Philippine government delegation to the United Nations in Geneva said Monday that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will soon begin the process of signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . Philippines' accession to the optional protocol will open the country's [...]
A four-member Iraqi judiciary panel dismissed the last remaining charge against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Sunday and recommended the US release him from custody immediately. The US said this weekend that it will continue to hold Hussein despite an earlier decision by the Iraqi panel to dismiss terrorism-related charges against the photographer. The [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the controversy over ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty is somewhat strange as the Treaty represents no radical alteration of the current "constitutional" relationship between the EU and its member states… With [...]
Khasan Yandiyev, deputy head of the Supreme Court in Russia's Ingushetia province was shot dead Sunday while changing a car tire near the town of Karabulak, according to a regional interior ministry spokesman quoted by Russian media. His killers have not yet been identified. Local media said Yandiyev had chaired trials of both corrupt officials [...]
Internecine conflict among factions of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda has killed a rebel commander wanted by International Criminal Court prosecutors, according to sources speaking to Reuters Sunday. Okot Odhiambo had been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes associated with the LRA attacks on Ugandan refugee camps in 2003 and [...]
Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will return to political life Monday as the leader of opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat, marking the expiration of his 10-year ban from public office arising from corruption and now-overturned sodomy convictions . In the country's March 8 elections , the recently formed coalition won a third of the [...]
