The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing over 100 court cases against landowners along the US-Mexico border who have refused to allow construction of a 670-mile border fence on their properties, DHS officials said Wednesday. DHS sent 135 letters to hold-out property owners last month threatening court action if they did not comply, [...]
The Constitutional Court of Korea on Thursday approved a special investigation of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak over fraud allegations relating to stock price-rigging by a former business partner. Lee, who takes office on February 25, is now subject to a 40-day investigation set to begin next week. The conservative former Seoul mayor has denied [...]
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the US CIA's clandestine branch who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , has told Congress that he will not testify about the videotapes without a grant of immunity, a lawyer for Rodriguez said Wednesday. The US House Select Committee on Intelligence last month [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that amidst the recent feting of Libyan leader Muamar Ghadaffi in European capitals, part and parcel of his larger political rehabilitation in the West, his regime's role in atrocities in Liberia and [...]
Max Croes : "On December 31, 2007, President Bush, with unanimous support from Congress, signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act into law. The law is a landmark establishment of standards for policies of targeted divestment from Sudan. The operative provisions are fourfold. First, the law authorizes states and local governments to adopt policies of [...]
A Palestinian doctor detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) against Libya Wednesday, alleging he was tortured during his detention. Decisions by the UNHRC are not binding, but it could ask that Libya [...]
UK prosecutors Wednesday dropped charges against Dennis Pasquill, a civil servant in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office who was accused of leaking secret documents about CIA rendition flights to the New Statesman and the Observer newspapers in violation of the Official Secrets Act . Pasquill's lawyer said the decision to drop charges showed that [...]
US District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. Wednesday refused to order an inquiry into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects . In denying the motion brought by lawyers for a number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, Kennedy concluded that there was no evidence that the Bush administration violated a June [...]
A lawyer for two UK residents formerly held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay prison argued in a British court Wednesday that they should not be extradited to Spain to face terror charges. Jamil el-Banna and Omar Deghayes face transfer to that country after crusading Spanish anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzón requested that the two [...]
An aid worker was charged in a French court Wednesday with conspiring to allow illegal residents into the country in connection with an aborted airlift of 103 supposed Darfur orphans from Chad to France last year. The indictment comes just two weeks after Alain Peligat and five other workers with French charity Zoe's Ark were [...]
