Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will be sentenced next week for ordering a 2000 warrantless search on the apartment of the wife of former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino , according to a Wednesday press release from the Peruvian Supreme Court. Prosecutors alleged that the search was intended to uncover and confiscate documents that might [...]
John Whitehead : "As oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush concluded this afternoon, one could not help but think that it will prove to be one of the most important wartime cases in a post-9/11 America. The case centers on Lakhdar Boumediene, who was labeled an "alien unlawful enemy combatant" [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo Wednesday asked the UN Security Council to press Sudan to execute outstanding arrest warrants against two Sudanese men accused of crimes against humanity in Darfur . Moreno-Campo said that the government of Sudan has not cooperated with efforts to arrest former Sudanese Minister of the Interior Ahmed [...]
A group of renowned Chinese lawyers and academics Tuesday released an open letter to the Chinese government , calling for the end of "re-education" labor camps. The scholars said the camps, originally designed in 1957 to deal with political dissidents, violate the Chinese constitution because sentences are imposed by police or political leaders rather than [...]
Newly declassified court documents show that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay ignored evidence clearing German-born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz of terrorist connections, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Kurnaz sued the Department of Defense in December 2006 to compel the release of the classified documents. The Post reported Wednesday that a 2002 [...]
Former Pakistani prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto are in negotiations to draw up a list of formal demands they say must be met by the government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf before they will definitively agree to participate in January's parliamentary elections, but they remain divided on the issue of reinstalling ousted superior [...]
Disgraced Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu was indicted Tuesday on 15 additional counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) in connection with a massive alleged Ponzi scheme . Hsu also allegedly made illegal campaign contributions in other peoples' names in violation of the FECA. According to the [...]
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Wednesday apologized to the thousands of Japanese women and children abandoned during Japan's retreat from China at the close of World War II, marking the first time that a Japanese leader has apologized for the country's failure to support the "war orphans" . The remarks came after the recent passage [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United States (06-1196) on whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be allowed to challenge their detentions in federal court. The Court is considering whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006 "validly stripped federal court [...]
Danilo Reyes : "There have been dozens of attempted coups in the modern history of the Philippines, but only one has succeeded: the February 1986 overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. His regime and its constitutional foundations were toppled because even though the country's institutions were structurally intact, they were not credible to the vast numbers of [...]
