UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told the UN Security Council that he is nominating Serge Brammertz to replace Carla Del Ponte as the next chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Brammertz is currently serving as the head of a UN probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime [...]
Anonymous : "This evening I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting with four very important judges of the Lahore High Court who refused to take oaths under the Provisional Constitutional Order promulgated by the Chief of the Army Staff on the evening of the 3rd of November. It is very unfair that not only [...]
A week-long meeting of parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) concluded Tuesday without delegates reaching an agreement on a legally binding ban on cluster munitions . Representatives from 102 nations did agree to negotiate a new pact regarding "the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions," but failed to agree on a complete ban. [...]
The US Army has issued a statement to top personnel reiterating the Army's ban on waterboarding as an interrogation technique, AP reported Tuesday. The Army officially banned the use of waterboarding in September 2006 with the release of the interrogation guide Field Manual 2-22.3 , which deemed it a "prohibited action." The November 6 "strategic [...]
A US Marine declined to enter a plea at his Tuesday arraignment on charges stemming from the killings of 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha in November 2005. Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum faces a maximum of 19 years in prison if found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and aggravated assault charges. Lt. Gen. James [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has nominated former Canadian Deputy Attorney General Daniel Bellemare to serve as the commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) , a UN spokesperson said Tuesday. If approved, Bellemare will head the UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . He will replace Serge [...]
Officials in Myanmar arrested prominent labor rights activist Suu Suu Nway Tuesday, according to a representative for the National League for Democracy-Liberated Area Myanmar in Thailand. An official speaking on condition of anonymity told AP that Nway was detained Tuesday when she attempted to post a leaflet near the hotel of visiting UN Special Rapporteur [...]
Yahoo! Inc. agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit filed in US federal court alleging that the Internet giant aided and abetted human rights violations committed by the Chinese government by providing Chinese officials with information, including e-mail records and user ID numbers, that helped them to identify pro-democracy activists in violation of the Torture Victim [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in Richlin Security Service v. Chertoff (06-1717) , a case where the Court will consider whether paralegal services can be recovered at the market rate when determining the payment of attorneys' fees. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the Equal Access to [...]
Anonymous : "The legal fraternity in Pakistan so far is absent from the long march or other protests earlier planned by Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. There are a number of reasons why this is so. Firstly, a Bar Association is a registered body duly registered under the relevant law. It elects its office bearers through elections. [...]
