Co-prosecutors for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) submitted their first introductory submission Wednesday, referring factual allegations of 25 instances of murder, torture, unlawful detention, forced labor, as well as religious, political and ethnic persecution, and other crimes to co-investigating judges to bring charges against five unnamed suspects believed to be responsible [...]
Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers again refused Tuesday to testify in front of the US House Judiciary Committee regarding the allegedly political firings of eight US attorneys . In a letter to the committee, Miers' lawyer repeated previous assertions that President George W. Bush has ordered Miers not to cooperate with the investigation, citing [...]
The US policy of deporting legal immigrants convicted of crimes has separated an estimated 1.6 million children and adults and resulted in the permanent exile of permanent residents for even non-violent misdemeanor offenses, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW US Program senior research Alison Parker, the author of [...]
A court sitting at London's Old Bailey on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Muhid, Umran Javed, and Mizanur Rahman to six-year prison terms for inciting murder and racial hatred during a February 2006 protest against the republication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad . The court also sentenced a fourth defendant, Abdul Saleem, to a four-year term [...]
An Indian TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities) court on Wednesday sentenced three defendants to death for their roles in the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in India's financial center. The three defendants, Pervez Sheikh, Abdul Turq, and Mohammed Mushtaq Tarani, were issued death sentences after the court [...]
In re Request for Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutionality of 2005 PA 71, Michigan Supreme Court, July 18, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy, Human Rights Watch, July 17, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has obtained a new legal team for former Liberian President Charles Taylor , appointing on Tuesday Courtenay Griffiths, QC as lead counsel and Andrew Cayley and Terry Munyard to serve as co-counsels on Taylor's defense team. Taylor, who has boycotted several trial sessions, has demanded that the SCSL [...]
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday reversed a 2003 ruling awarding 190 million yen (approximately $1.56 million) in compensation to 13 Chinese plaintiffs injured by World War II-era chemical weapons left in China by the Japanese military. The court's decision came on the grounds that the plaintiffs had not sufficiently established that their injuries would [...]
A group of children of Holocaust survivors have filed a class action lawsuit against the German government in an Israeli court, seeking German financial contribution to an annual $10 million therapy fund for approximately 15,000 to 20,000 so-called second-generation Holocaust survivors. In the lawsuit Monday, the second-generation survivors argued that Nazi atrocities against their parents [...]
