The Supreme Court of Peru Monday sentenced 10 former cabinet officials from the government of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for their involvement in the government's seizure of power from Congress and the judiciary in 1992. The court sentenced former Interior Minister Juan Briones Davila to 10 years in prison, while handing out suspended sentences [...]
The North Korean government is stepping up the use of public executions, South Korean aid agency Good Friends said Monday. Good Friends said that the regime is targeting public officials accused of crimes such as drug trafficking or embezzlement. Public executions in North Korea had previously been on the decline since 2000 under pressure from [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection did not violate the First and Fourth Amendments by subjecting individuals returning from an annual international religious conference in Canada to lengthy security checks. The ruling comes in a lawsuit brought by the New York [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's political parties should boycott the parliamentary elections scheduled for January and support Pakistani lawyers' more fundamental efforts to restore the suspended constitution and reinstate the superior court judges ousted by General Pervez Musharraf under emergency rule… The lawyers’ movement in Pakistan [...]
The government of Sudan is planning a lawsuit against French charity Zoe's Ark for its involvement in last month's attempt to airlift 103 children alleged to be Darfur orphans from neighboring Chad to Europe. Sudanese Interior Minister Zubair Bashir Taha also said Monday that the government will sue a French base in Chad for allegedly [...]
An Iranian court has acquitted Hossein Mousavian, a former key nuclear negotiator, of espionage charges but convicted him of "propagating" against the Islamic government, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said Tuesday. Mousavian was arrested in May on suspicions that he passed classified information to the British embassy and other foreigners. While the court suspended Mousavian's [...]
Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz apologized Tuesday for demanding that that all of the Supreme Court of Pakistan judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf when he declared emergency rule in early November vacate their government-provided accommodations by Friday and return to their own homes. Nawaz's apology followed comments from Justice Rana Bhagwandas , who said [...]
Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan et al. v. Blackwater Worldwide, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, November 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Philippines armed forces have followed a "deliberate strategy" of killing left-wing activists, according to a report Monday by UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston . According to the summary of Alston's report: Many in the Government have concluded that numerous civil society organizations are "fronts" for the Communist Party [...]
Senegalese prosecutors will begin an investigation into former Chadian president Hissene Habre within months so that Habre can face trial for alleged torture and mass killings in Senegal in the 1980s, victims' lawyers said Monday. Senegalese officials said earlier this year that Habre's trial would probably not begin for another three years in order to [...]
