JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf – the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" – to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and the rule of law… Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman military and political dictator, is the role [...]
Participants in the United Nations Climate Change Conference agreed in Bali, Indonesia Saturday to a timetable for negotiating a new international treaty on global warming . Under the "Bali Roadmap" , the 187 participating nations pledged to a negotiate a new agreement to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol by 2009: The decision includes a clear [...]
Republican senators Friday blocked US Senate agreement to provisions in a House of Representatives intelligence funding bill passed Thursday limiting CIA interrogation methods by invoking a Senate rule against the late insertion of new language in legislation. House and Senate negotiators had added language to HR 2082 that would bar the CIA from using techniques [...]
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Saturday lifted emergency rule over the country as anticipated , issuing an order reviving the suspended constitution, entrenching members of the country's post-emergency judiciary, and insulating actions taken under the emergency from any future legal challenges. The Revocation of Proclamation of Emergency Order 2007 also provides that the parliamentary elections scheduled [...]
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that the Department of Justice will not provide information to congressional officials regarding its ongoing probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects. In a letter to top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mukasey wrote: the Department has a long-standing policy of [...]
The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to end the mandate of a group of seven human rights experts tasked with monitoring the rights situation in the Darfur region in Sudan. The council did, however, extend the mandate of its Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan and adopted a resolution [...]
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Friday promulgated an order to amend the Pakistani constitution, allowing the president to declare a state of emergency without parliamentary ratification and providing that any judge who has not taken an oath under the Oath of Office (Judges) Order, 2007 established under Musharraf's Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) ceased to hold office [...]
Jean-Marie Le Pen , leader of France's far-right National Front party , went on trial Friday for "complicity in contesting crimes against humanity and complicity in justifying war crimes." The charges stem from Le Pen's 2005 comments during an interview with the right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol that the World War II Nazi occupation of France [...]
The UK parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) Friday issued a report opposing a proposal by the government to extend the time limit on detaining terror suspects from 28 to 42 days. The JCHR concluded that the government had not made an adequate case for the increase and that:i) it can find no clear [...]
A court in Chad has set December 21 as the trial date for six French nationals connected with the abortive effort by French charity Zoe's Ark to airlift so-called "Darfur orphans" out of Chad to Europe. The six will be tried on kidnapping, fraud, and forgery charges. Zoe's Ark founder Eric Breteau said in a [...]
