Former Chadian president Hissene Habre , who has been charged with crimes against humanity, will stand trial before a Senegalese criminal court, rather than before a special tribunal as previously decided, Senegal's Justice Minister Sheik Tidiane Sy said Thursday. At an assembly last year, leaders of the African Union decided that Habre would face trial [...]
A panel of the US House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she ignored a subpoena ordering her to appear and testify at a hearing regarding the firings of federal prosecutors . The Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law voted 7-5 to [...]
United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A series of interviews with US veterans of the Iraq war shows a pattern of systematic human rights abuses, according to a new report in The Nation . The magazine calls the investigation, which yielded thousands of pages of typed testimony, "the first time so many on-the-record, named eyewitnesses from within the US military" have [...]
UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) head Serge Brammertz said in a report to the UN Security Council Thursday that the probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has identified several suspects involved or with insider knowledge of the plot. Brammertz also said that the investigation has obtained information concerning [...]
Jonathan 'Jack' Idema , an American civilian convicted of illegal imprisonment and torture as a rogue vigilante in Afghanistan in 2004, filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press Thursday, alleging that AP defamed, libeled, and slandered him. He also alleged that AP distributed photographs and video provided by Idema or his lawyers without obtaining publishing [...]
A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary said Wednesday that 20 sex offenders and violent criminals will be executed by hanging over the next few days. Among the condemned are at least 15 arrested in May during a crackdown on "public morals" . Some were arrested for homosexual conduct or alcohol consumption. Although judiciary spokesman Alireza [...]
The Iraqi government has shown sufficient progress in its efforts to develop a constitutional review process, but is not making satisfactory progress in passing laws on the distribution of oil revenues and de-Baathification reform, according to the Initial Benchmark Assessment Report sent to Congress Thursday by the White House. The report was issued pursuant to [...]
A Moscow court Thursday initiated preliminary hearings for exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky who is accused of embezzling millions from Russian national airline Aeroflot , granting Berezovsky's court-appointed lawyer a two-week postponement of further proceedings so that the defense can prepare for the case. Berezovsky, who has been residing in the UK since 2001 as [...]
US Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and a bipartisan group of cosponsors Wednesday proposed a new piece of anti-pollution legislation that is supported by some of the country's largest coal-burning companies and their labor unions. Informally called the Low Carbon Economy Act , the bill aims to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere [...]
