Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila pleaded not guilty Friday to 19 counts of conspiracy, false statements, wire fraud, federal program fraud and tax crimes related to campaign financing, and other crimes. The charges stem from alleged violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act during Vila's 1999-2000 and 2001-2002 campaigns to become Puerto Rico's Resident [...]
US military prosecutors Friday dropped all charges against a US Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005. Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum had been charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and aggravated assault, but a US Marine Corps statement said the charges were dropped "in order [...]
Over 100 protesters rallied near a United Nations facility in Kathmandu on Friday, demonstrating against China's recent crackdown on pro-Tibet protests . Nepalese police arrested around 60 protesters, while about 20 others, reportedly Tibetan high school students, scaled the walls of the compound and peacefully demonstrated inside. Police asked for the group inside the compound [...]
Chad's Higher Judicial Council on Friday recommended that Chadian President Idriss Deby pardon six French aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children. Deby said earlier this month that he may pardon the aid workers within weeks , but that he was waiting for an official request from France. [...]
Five former US secretaries of state Thursday called for the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay at a conference held at the University of Georgia School of Law to discuss foreign policy issues. Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, Henry Kissinger, Warren Christopher, and James Baker III also agreed that the next president "should be [...]
The Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled Thursday that bail is not a constitutional right, but also found that holding a person in police custody for more than 48 hours without charge is a violation of human rights. The finding overturns sections of several Ugandan laws, including the Trial and Indictment Act, the Uganda People's Defence [...]
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri signed an executive order Thursday that will require state agencies and companies to verify the legal status of their employees when they do business with the state, and will allow state police, prison and parole officials more flexibility in finding and deporting illegal immigrants. During a news conference, Carcieri argued [...]
Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists who drew the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide protests in 2005, plans to sue the author of an anti-Islam film for copyright infringement, Westergaard said Friday. Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders reproduced Westergaard's cartoon in a controversial anti-Islam film titled "Fitna." The film has not [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by holding the men – all cleared for release – in complete isolation in the supermax-style [...]
Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, March 27, 2008. Read the full text of the speech. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
