A quarter of criminal defendants in Cambodian courts are tortured or coerced into giving confessions, a statistic that has not changed since last year, according to an annual report released Thursday by Center for Social Development (CSD) . The report found that: Although duress is prohibited in Cambodia, CSD found a significant number of cases [...]
Chinese officials have ordered the closure of 25 video-sharing websites in a recent crackdown on Internet content considered pornographic, violent, or a threat to national security, the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Friday. Under rules that went into effect earlier this year, Chinese video-sharing websites must delete and report any content [...]
Letter from Abdulghappar Turkistani, March 20, 2008 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
In Re: I. Lewis Libby, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, March 20, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Attacks carried out by the Sudanese Army in four Darfur villages earlier this year constituted human rights violations, according to a report released Thursday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) . The attacks, ostensibly meant to drive back the rebel Justice and Equality Movement , left at least 115 dead and some [...]
Bangladeshi authorities Thursday released a cartoonist detained for allegedly insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad after the police official pressing charges against him repeatedly failed to appear in court. Arifur Rahman was arrested in September after the magazine Alpin, a subsidiary of Prothom Alo , published a cartoon that he created depicting a young boy and [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr could present evidence before the Court that the US is detaining Khadr in violation of international law. At a hearing scheduled for next week, Khadr's lawyers are also expected to argue that Canadian officials have acted contrary to Canadian law by [...]
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals Thursday issued a disbarment order for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , banning him from practicing law in the District of Columbia. The DC Bar's Board on Professional Responsibility found that Libby's March 2007 conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges constituted crimes involving moral [...]
The Russian Office of the Prosecutor-General has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky falsely claimed the country's secret service had targeted him for assassination, an office spokesperson told the Itar-Tass news agency Thursday. Prosecutors are investigating whether Berezovsky violated Article 306 of the Russian Criminal Code . Itar-Tass has [...]
Milberg Weiss partner and co-founder Melvyn Weiss on Thursday agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a long-running US Attorney investigation into an alleged kickback scheme. Weiss was indicted last year for conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements and initially pleaded not guilty in October 2007. Under the plea deal, [...]
