US District Judge Reggie B. Walton Tuesday threatened to hold a reporter in contempt of court if she continues to violate an August 2007 order to testify about government sources who provided five reporters with information about former US Army germ-warfare researcher Dr. Steven J. Hatfill . Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy , who [...]
The government of Uganda has reached an agreement with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to establish a war crimes court to prosecute crimes against humanity committed during Uganda's civil war , the BBC reported Tuesday. A government spokesman said that a special unit will be established to investigate and prosecute crimes, and that a [...]
A committee appointed by the military government of Myanmar has completed work on a new draft constitution, state media reported Tuesday. The document was drafted by a 54-member constitution-drafting commission appointed by the junta, despite calls from the UN that the drafting process be open to outside groups. The draft is scheduled to go to [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear five cases , including Herring v. United States (07-513) , where the Court will decide whether evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest must be suppressed when the sole premise for the arrest was information later found to be negligently provided by another law [...]
The Federal Magistrate Court of Australia Tuesday relaxed certain control order restrictions against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , permitting him to reside anywhere in the country subject to approval from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) . Hicks will have to report twice a week to the AFP, and will still be barred from [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Monday refused to comment on the legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, instead calling on all parties to "exercise maximum restraint" in response to the declaration. Ban also reiterated that "the recognition of states" is a decision for other states and not the UN Secretariat. He did not [...]
The six children of former Indonesian President Haji Mohammed Suharto failed to appear in court Tuesday, ignoring a court summons to defend Suharto's estate in a civil corruption case. Suharto's defense lawyer, who wanted to introduce legal expert testimony on behalf of the heirs, was unable to represent Suharto's children because he was unable to [...]
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) conceded defeat Tuesday in parliamentary elections as unofficial results tentatively gave the opposition parties of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approximately 60 percent of 272 seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan . Musharraf's PML-Q retained approximately 12 percent of [...]
Maureen Aung-Thwin : "The sudden announcement by the Burmese military regime that it would soon hold a national referendum, to be followed by elections in two years, is not a total surprise. The referendum scheduled for May is on a yet-to-be-written new constitution that has been drafted in secrecy since 1993, in a process controlled [...]
Ali Khan : "Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf deserves credit for holding fair elections for the national and provincial parliaments. The opposition parties have won and the President's Party has lost in a big way. It is now time for the President to leave office with honor and dignity. To put Pakistan back on the democratic [...]
