Suspended Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday released to reporters a signed affidavit he had filed with the Supreme Court of Pakistan detailing how he was detained last March against his will and personally pressured to resign his post by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and other military leaders. The affidavit alleges that Musharraf and [...]
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday denied allegations published in The Independent that he advised Army officials to deny UK detainees in Iraq legal protections guaranteed under the Human Rights Act of 1998 (HRA) and instead adopt a "pragmatic" approach adhering to the Geneva Conventions when handling detainees. In an interview with BBC Radio [...]
Lawyers for US Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the Secret Service to destroy data on who visited his official residence at the Naval Observatory, saying that the information was protected by the Presidential Records Act , according to a letter included in a response filed Friday by the US Department of Justice to a lawsuit [...]
The US Department of Defense will not release audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay due to concerns that it could be used in terrorist propaganda, a military spokesperson said Tuesday. During his hearing Mohammed said he masterminded the 9/11 attacks and claimed [...]
A convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal who escaped from prison presents a threat to the security and judges of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Meddzida Kreso, president of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Tuesday. Radovan Stankovic , the first Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect transferred from the [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former FBI Director William S. Sessions says that Governor Eliot Spitzer’s recent proposal to expand the New York DNA database and an Ohio Supreme Court ruling liberalizing DNA testing for inmates should be welcomed as necessary and overdue efforts to protect public safety while pursuing meaningful justice, especially for prisoners [...]
Malaysia's Federal Court, the highest court for civil cases, Wednesday rejected an appeal by Lina Joy, who sought to change her religious affiliation on her government registration card from Islam to Christianity. The high court's ruling upheld a lower civil court ruling that Joy must obtain permission to change her religious affiliation from an Islamic [...]
Asian and European countries agreed Tuesday to set new international emissions standards by 2009, after a two-day conference in Hamburg, Germany that included representatives from over 40 nations. Supporters of the new deadline said it was necessary in light of the impending 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol , which currently governs international greenhouse gases. [...]
The Bangladeshi interim government arrested seven prominent citizens Tuesday in the latest chapter of its anti-corruption campaign . The military-backed regime detained four former government ministers, two mayors, and an ex-president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Those arrested included former Commerce Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, former Health Minister Sheikh [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Tuesday in four cases to be heard next term. In Hall Street v. Mattel (06-989) the court will resolve a circuit split on whether parties may contractually agree to vacate an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act . In Ali v. Federal Board of Prisons (06-9130) the court [...]
