TIME magazine on Thursday asked the Supreme Court of Indonesia to reconsider its August 2007 decision awarding former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto $106 million in damages in Suharto's defamation suit against the publication. Suharto sued TIME over a 1999 article that said Suharto had hidden billions of dollars in foreign banks. The Supreme Court [...]
Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison by Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court Wednesday, after being convicted on charges of fraud and abuse of office earlier in the week. He was convicted for his involvement in a corruption scheme which misappropriated $31 million in US aid designated to [...]
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Wednesday appealed the UK Home Office's approval of his extradition to the US on charges of supporting terrorism, arguing that UK courts should review the evidence against Abu Hamza before he is extradited. Abu Hamza, currently serving a seven-year sentence in the UK for urging his followers to kill [...]
Pakistani police in Karachi used tear gas against lawyers rallying for the restoration of ousted Pakistani superior court judges on Thursday, soon after now-dismissed Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry addressed them by telephone from his official residence in Islamabad, where he is still under house arrest. Chaudhry spoke to lawyers at the [...]
The UN Security Council approved a resolution Wednesday authorizing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint four additional judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The Security Council unanimously approved the measure to enable the ICTY to try all defendants by the end of 2008. The resolution allows the president of the [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's newly-elected Parliament is authorized to pass an Emergency Bill to arrest Pervez Musharraf, charge him with treason, and prosecute him under Article 6(1) of the Constitution in his capacity as a usurper, not a lawful president subject to potential impeachment… Pervez [...]
Members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee have criticized the European Union's terrorism watch list as unfair and opaque, saying that the process for adding names to the list should be changed, according to Wednesday media reports. The comments came during a debate on a November 2007 report by Rapporteur Dick Marty that found [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said through a spokesperson Wednesday that freedom of expression should take into account respect for religious beliefs . The comments come in response to the recent controversy over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. Ban's spokesperson added that the UN has made [...]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) is urging the US Department of Justice to charge resigning Cuban leader Fidel Castro with murder for the 1996 killings of four US aid workers, according to Wednesday media reports. In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Ros-Lehtinen said that prosecution would be possible as Castro will relinquish his immunity [...]
Kenyan opposition leaders said Wednesday that they would begin renewed demonstrations next week if the government does not make progress on writing a new constitution. Negotiations between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga appear to have stalled, but last Thursday both sides did agree to write a new constitution , a possible [...]
