The reconstituted Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday dismissed the final outstanding legal challenge to General Pervez Musharraf's October legislative re-election to the post of president of Pakistan. Rival candidate Zahoor Mehdi had argued that the Pakistan election commission should not have denied Mehdi a slot on the October ballot. The Supreme Court ruled that Mehdi's [...]
Mann v. Georgia Department of Corrections, Supreme Court of Georgia, November 21, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, November 21, 2007 . Read the full text of the order. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf promulgated an ordinance Wednesday invoking his power to unilaterally amend the country's constitution under Article 2(1) of the current Provisional Constitution Order and making the November 3 declaration of emergency and accompanying orders immune from any legal challenge by deeming them always to have been validly made. The Constitution (Amendment) Order, [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on Pakistan to restore judicial independence in comments to AFP Wednesday, saying that an independent judiciary is just as important as free elections to a democracy. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf dismissed 14 Supreme Court judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry , in the wake of [...]
Prosecutors argued before a hearing of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Wednesday that former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav should be denied bail to prevent violence that could threaten public order. Lawyers said that Kaing Guek Eav, better known as "Duch," is a flight risk and, if released, could be [...]
The Supreme Court of Georgia Wednesday unanimously overturned a state law that prohibited registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds and other areas where children gather. Civil rights groups had criticized the law as overly strict, saying that the state's roughly 11,000 registered sex offenders would have been barred from living [...]
The UN General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday approved a draft resolution imploring Iran to "respect fully its human rights obligations." The draft expressed concern about ongoing human rights violations in Iran despite previous resolutions condemning acts including torture, public executions, and discrimination against minorities and women. The draft calls on the Iranian government: a) To [...]
UN Special Representative for the Children and Armed Conflict Unit Radhika Coomaraswamy Tuesday expressed concern about the prosecution of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr , saying that prosecuting Khadr for alleged war crimes committed while he was a minor could set a dangerous precedent. Coomaraswamy made the comments to US State Department legal adviser John [...]
A French judge Wednesday opened a formal investigation into former French President Jacques Chirac for his alleged involvement in a corruption scheme during his tenure as the mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. Chirac allegedly financed the Rally for the Republic (RPR) , now renamed as the Union for a Popular Movement , by [...]
