Representatives of Cuba and Venezuela Wednesday criticized the US during a UN Security Council meeting for failing to turn over anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles , saying that the US is bound by international treaties, including the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against [...]
China has arrested 24 suspects in Tibet for their role in pro-Tibet protests that erupted throughout the region last week, the Tibet Daily reported Thursday. The suspects are charged with endangering national security, among other crimes, and many more are expected to be detained in the near future. Some groups maintain, however, that hundreds more [...]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday rejected a request by former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea to be released from provisional detention . Nuon Chea, known as Brother Number Two in the Khmer Rouge , was arrested and charged in September and has since been held by the ECCC. Nuon [...]
A Chilean court convicted 24 former Chilean police officers of human rights violations on Wednesday for their role in the 1973 murders of 30 leftist prisoners. A woman who survived the incident, which took place during the regime of former dictator Augusto Pinochet , testified that the officers tortured and shot some 30 inmates, and [...]
Seventeen Chinese Uighur Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay for six years have still not been told why they are being held at the military facility, according to a letter written by one of the detainees and released by his lawyers Wednesday. According to Abdulghappar Turkistani, he and other Uighur detainees hoped that the US would [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the mixed success to date of Iraqi legislative initiatives aimed at rebuilding the country's legal order suggests that true progress and stabilization beyond the mere enactment of laws may require an Iraqi commitment to a long term US troop [...]
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has affirmed a prior ruling that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan may send written questions to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged high-level al Qaeda detainees. In a Friday ruling made public Wednesday, Allred found that questioning the detainees could lead to the discovery of [...]
Kenya should not grant amnesty to anyone who committed human rights violations in the wake of December's disputed presidential election , according to a report issued Wednesday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights . The report offered nine recommendations for re-establishing stability in the country, including establishing a Truth Justice [...]
Iraq's Presidency Council Wednesday withdrew its objections to a provincial elections law detailing the relationship between Iraq's central and local governments. In a statement issued Wednesday, the three-member Presidency Council, comprised of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi , and Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi , indicated that the law may now take effect [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Chamber of Commerce v. Brown , 06-939, a case where the Court is reviewing the constitutionality of a 2000 California law that prohibits employers from using certain funds they receive from the state to influence union elections. During arguments Wednesday, Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice [...]
