The Russian Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 , and therefore not eligible for legal rehabilitation. The decision upholds a September determination by Russia's Prosecutor General which said that the Tsar could not be rehabilitated, as he was not executed following a formal [...]
Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner dedicated a new monument to victims of the 1976-83 Dirty War in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The monument, on which the names of thousands of victims are engraved, sits beside the Rio de la Plata, where drugged prisoners who were suspected of "subversion" were thrown to their deaths. Kirchner used the [...]
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that warrants for documents seized from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma were lawfully obtained, and could be used against him in any potential corruption trial. The court heard arguments in the case , filed by the country's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) , in September. The decision overturns [...]
Pakistani prosecutors on Thursday charged four activists with treason, the first such charges brought under the declaration of emergency rule implemented by President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday. The four activists, who are in detention following a series of arrests made this week by Pakistani police, were charged with making anti-Musharraf speeches in the southern city [...]
US military forces in Iraq released 500 detainees at a joint ceremony with the Iraqi government on Thursday at Camp Victory outside Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , speaking to the newly released detainees on Thursday, said the release is part of an effort to harmonize relations between the Shiite and Sunni populations. Sunnis [...]
1LT. Ehren K. Watada v. Lt. Col. John Head, Military Judge, Army Trial Judiciary, Fourth Judicial District, et al., US District Court for the Western District of Washington, November 8, 2007 . Read the full text of the preliminary injunction . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Stockwell One: Investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell underground station on 22 July 2005, UK Independent Police Complaints Commission, November 8, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Serb nationalist leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj used his opening statement at his trial Thursday to call the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) "illegal and illegitimate," and accused the court of an impermissible bias against Serb defendants. Seselj, accused of establishing rogue paramilitary units responsible for massacring and otherwise persecuting [...]
Bangladesh police on Wednesday arrested an associate of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on suspicion of instigating street demonstrations in violation of the ban on assembly, one of the freedoms restricted in January when the military government declared a state of emergency . Hannan Shah, a former military officer and an outspoken member of [...]
Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti filed suit in state court Wednesday against the state's six largest insurance companies, including Allstate and State Farm, alleging the companies conspired to fix payouts for damages related to Hurricane Katrina in violation of the Louisiana Monopolization Act. According to Foti's statement, as reported by the Times-Picayune: This alleged [...]
