Anonymous : "Today, I went to Lahore High Court at around 12 noon. It was all deserted. Hardly any lawyers seen there. Many plain clothed policemen and other military agents were roaming around. I could not get pictures under apprehension of loosing my Motorola, but I managed to take one that I am sending. This [...]
The government of Pakistan said Monday that a Tuesday protest march planned by former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto violates the declaration of emergency announced by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and will not be allowed to take place. The protesters would have marched from the city of Lahore to the capital of Islamabad, but the [...]
Australian prosecutors dismissed a terrorist training charge against Izhar Ul-Haque Monday after the New South Wales Supreme Court found that two officials belonging to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) had violated his rights by kidnapping and falsely imprisoning him. Judge Michael Adams found that ASIO agents coerced Ul-Haque into a vehicle, threatened him with [...]
The crew of the Cosco Busan, which leaked some 58,000 gallons of fuel oil into the San Fransisco Bay after colliding with a bridge last week, is being held for questioning by federal investigators as a criminal investigation into the oil spill begins, the US Coast Guard said Sunday. Coast Guard Captain William Uberti said [...]
Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in Western media as "Chemical Ali," will not be transferred to Iraqi custody for execution until a legal debate on the executions is resolved, the US embassy in Iraq said Monday. US spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said that there are unresolved questions about the legal and procedural requirements for executions [...]
Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry said in a statement reported by Pakistani media Monday that he and other Pakistan Supreme Court judges were removed by General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule early this month because an independent judiciary would have prevented Musharraf from rigging upcoming elections. "Election manipulation is not possible under [...]
Provisional draft report on UN Security Council and European Union blacklists, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), November 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, International Criminal Court, November 9, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Citizen for Responsibility and Ethnics in Washington v. Executive Office of the President, et al., The National Security Archive v. Executive Office of the President, at al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Iran temporarily suspended the sentence of women's rights activist Delaram Ali Monday for two weeks while officials decide whether to review her case. Despite leniency pleas from seven leading human rights organizations , Ali was set to begin a sentence of 34 months in prison and 10 lashes Saturday. Ali was sentenced for her part [...]
