Hungary became the first EU member to ratify the new Treaty of Lisbon when the Hungarian National Assembly voted 325-5 Monday in favor of the treaty. Fourteen assembly members abstained from the vote. Leaders from the 27 European Union member countries signed the EU reform treaty last week, but all member countries must ratify the [...]
Anonymous : "Mr. Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif was the seniormost Judge of the Lahore High Court on the morning of November 3, i.e. No. 2 after the Chief Justice. Because of the extra-constitutional steps of General (Retired) Musharraf, he is one of those Judges who were unceremoniously and unlawfully removed from their positions under the [...]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethnics in Washington v. United States Department of Homeland Security, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 17, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Jasna Sarcevic Jankovic : "The location, arresting and transfer of Ratko Mladic and the other three indictees to The Hague is not only our international obligation, but also our moral duty. The fact is that Serbia has so far fulfilled most of its obligations towards the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, including the [...]
Nigeria has secretly carried out at least seven state executions in recent years despite official denials, Amnesty International claimed Monday in a new report. The executed men, who were all hanged, were generally tried without representation and not given any opportunity to appeal their convictions. Amnesty accused Nigeria of "misleading the world," and called on [...]
The alleged head of Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) went to trial in Indonesia Monday. Zarkasih is charged with training and equipping JI members as well as conspiracy to commit terrorism. He could face the death penalty if convicted. BBC News has more. JI was responsible for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings , [...]
A federal judge ruled Monday that White House visitor logs are public documents , rejecting a Bush administration bid to have the logs treated as confidential presidential records. Visitor logs are compiled by the Secret Service, and thus subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests; the Bush administration had ordered that the logs be [...]
Former Uruguay military dictator and army chief Gregorio Alvarez was charged Monday with crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's 1973-85 period of military rule and specifically for his alleged role in the secret transfers of several political prisoners in 1978, who disappeared and are presumed dead. He faces up to 25 years in [...]
Incoming Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez Monday dismissed Argentinian coast guard head Carlos Fernandez, one week after former Argentinian coast guard officer and torture suspect Hector Febres was found dead in his military jail cell with high levels of cyanide in his blood. Febres went to trial in October on charges of kidnapping and torturing four [...]
The government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has amended the controversial Public Order and Security Act , according to Monday media reports. The law prohibits public political gatherings without prior police approval. If police turn down a party's application to hold a rally, the party can appeal its case to the Minister of Home Affairs [...]
