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 [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates , 06-856, a case where the Court considered whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) allows an employee to sue for losses incurred when administrators of his retirement plan ignore his instructions on how to invest his retirement money. [...]

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday pushed for a life sentence for Father Athanase Seromba , arguing that Seromba's 15 year prison sentence for committing genocide and extermination during the 1994 mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda was too lenient. Seromba, who was acquitted of lesser charges of complicity [...]

A Russian court ruled against former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov Monday, denying Kasparov's appeal and ordering him to serve a five day jail sentence for organizing an unsanctioned protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin and resisting arrest. Kasparov says he complied with police and maintains that his arrest was [...]

Human rights groups Amnesty International and JUSTICE Monday argued against the UK government's proposal to extend the pre-charge detention period of suspected terrorists from 28 days to 56 days, saying separately that the extended detention is neither merited by the circumstances nor in keeping with the principals of liberal democracy. Amnesty issued "Ten good reasons [...]

Croatian lawmaker Branimir Glavas , charged with committing war crimes against Serbs during the 1991 Serbo-Croatian war , was re-elected to the Croatian parliament in Sunday's legislative elections, according to election results released Monday. Glavas was indicted in April along with six others on charges of war crimes committed in Osijek, including abduction, torture and [...]

Some 8,000 Kenyans have been killed over the last five years as a result of a police crackdown on the outlawed Mungiki sect, according to the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic-Kenya (OFFLACK) . In a report issued over the weekend, OFFLACK said: The Oscar Foundation has documented eight thousand and forty (8,040) cases of [...]

Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite lawmakers on Monday criticized the delay in the executions of Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in Western media as "Chemical Ali," and two others, all of whom are currently being held by the US military until a legal debate on the executions is resolved . Several legal and procedural requirements [...]