A convention convened by the government of Myanmar to establish guidelines for the eventual drafting of a new national constitution completed work at its final session Friday as international pressure increased for the government to release demonstrators arrested last week for participating in a peaceful protest against a recent rise in fuel prices. The convention, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that the recent acquittal of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Jordan of Abu Ghraib abuse charges reflects a structural failure to adequately incorporate the principle of command responsibility into the US Uniform Code of Military Justice… The acquittal of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Jordan on charges [...]
Rwandan prosecutors have called for Canada to extradite five suspects in the 1994 Rwanda genocide , according to Friday media reports. The five, who all appear on Rwanda's most-wanted list and whom Rwandan officials described as "masterminds" of the genocide, are accused of planning and encouraging massacres, supplying weapons to militia groups, and other crimes. [...]
Former terrorist suspect Karim Koubriti, a Moroccan national whose 2003 convictions for document fraud and conspiracy to aid terrorists were later overturned by a US federal judge, filed a $9 million lawsuit in federal court Thursday against former federal prosecutor Richard Convertino, former federal security officer Harry Smith, and FBI agent Michael Thomas, alleging they [...]
Some protesters being detained by authorities in Myanmar have begun a hunger strike, demanding that police camp officials provide medical treatment a fellow detainee with a broken leg, prominent labor rights activist Suu Suu Nway said Friday. Nway said the man, whose leg was broken during an a anti-government protest march Tuesday, is being detained [...]
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that the language used in policies by Nationwide Insurance was not "ambiguous" about whether damage caused by combinations of wind and water is covered under a policy that only lists one of the two. Although Nationwide defeated a lawsuit brought by [...]
Several dozen Muslims in Kenya protested in front of the Nairobi police headquarters Thursday, saying that the country has been detaining and torturing Muslim citizens at the request of the US government. The protesters alleged that suspects detained in Kenya were flown on secret rendition flights to Ethiopia, where "aggressive interrogation" took place at the [...]
The Death Penalty Worldwide, Hands Off Cain, August 30, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Katherine Varnum, et al., v. Timothy J. Brien, Iowa District Court for Polk County, August 30, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Paul Leonard, Julie Leonard v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 30, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
