Milberg Weiss partner and co-founder Melvyn Weiss pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Weiss was indicted last month and said at that time that he would remain of counsel to the firm while defending himself against the charges, but that he had relinquished his [...]
Carla Del Ponte , the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , on Monday chided Serbian authorities for failing to bring to justice four accused war criminals who are believed to be hiding in that country, saying that Serbia's cooperation with the tribunal is "still too slow and not [...]
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not be arrested upon her return to Pakistan, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Monday. Bhutto has lived in self-exile in London and Dubai since she left the country in 1999 under a cloud of corruption allegations, and the announcement paves the way for to return to [...]
UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari Monday criticized Myanmar's detention of four more pro-democracy activists , urging the military government to release political prisoners and end the detention of peaceful democracy activists. Gambari is currently visiting Asian states to solicit greater support for multilateral sanctions against Myanmar. The latest detainees, all [...]
Four prominent Sri Lankan human rights activists have resigned from a government advisory panel to protest Sri Lanka's worsening human rights situation, including ongoing extradjudicial killings, activist and lawyer Nimalka Fernando said Monday. The four submitted their resignations last week after Sri Lankan Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarashinghe rejected a proposed UN monitoring mission supported [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories John Dugard told the BBC Monday that he will recommend that the UN withdraw as a mediator in the Middle East unless action is taken on human rights violations in the Palestinian territories. Dugard said that the UN's membership in the Middle East Quartet , [...]
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani defended the legality of the semi-autonomous Kurdish government's Kurdistan Oil and Gas Law in an interview aired on Al Jazeera Sunday, faulting the Iraqi national government in Baghdad for failing to finalize oil revenue legislation. Barzani insisted that the KRG's oil contracts with foreign companies were consistent [...]
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that the House will vote on a resolution labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers despite complaints from Turkey. In a Sunday interview on ABC News' This Week, Pelosi said that the resolution will go forward for [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in a case where the Court will consider what constitutes money laundering, specifically whether the government must prove an intent to make money received from an unlawful activity appear to be from a legitimate source, or whether a defendant can be convicted of money laundering for merely hiding [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) secretly issued hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to obtain financial, telephone and Internet records without court approval, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Sunday when it released documents obtained from the Defense Department . The ACLU filed a lawsuit in June to compel the DOD and CIA [...]
