UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith Friday rejected a Russian offer to try the suspected murderer of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in its own courts, calling for Andrei Lugovoy's extradition to the United Kingdom. The Russian government has refused to turn Lugovoy over to the UK, saying that the Russian constitution forbids it, but Russian [...]
The military government of Myanmar Friday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, rejecting calls for her release by both national and international human rights activists. The move, which forces Suu Kyi to remain in her home for a fifth straight year, [...]
Attorney General of British Columbia v. Dugald E. Christie, Supreme Court of Canada, May 25, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The European Commission said Friday that an independent advisory panel will investigate Internet search engine giant Google to determine whether it complies with EU privacy rules . The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party , which advises the commission on data protection and privacy, drafted a letter to Google questioning the company's policy of retaining [...]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered Ukraine's interior ministry troops to come under his command Friday as a new crisis over Yushchenko's Thursday dismissal of the country's top prosecutor escalated, but Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych and Interior Minister Vasyl Tsushko defied the move, calling it unconstitutional. Yushchenko said the decree was necessary "given yesterday's events in [...]
The US Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility has expanded its investigation into whether department aides illegally made hiring decisions based on consideration of applicants' political beliefs, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The move follows Wednesday's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee by former DOJ aide Monica Goodling , where she admitted making [...]
Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison filed a lawsuit Thursday to test the constitutionality of a new Kansas law restricting protests at military funerals . The law, signed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius last month, will not take effect until it is upheld as constitutional by the Kansas Supreme Court or a federal court. Morrison's lawsuit, filed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the fraud convictions of Adelphia Communications founder John J. Rigas and son Timothy J. Rigas on all but one count Thursday, reversing and acquitting the defendants on one lesser count of bank fraud. The defendants argued that the fraud convictions should be reversed because the [...]
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) , an independent government council tasked with investigating alleged abuses of human rights in Mexico, issued a report Thursday criticizing the Mexican federal government's response to a May 2006 teachers' strike that escalated into an uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , saying that the federal government's intervention [...]
The US Senate has scheduled debate and a vote on a resolution expressing the Senate's lack of confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for mid-June. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday that 26 Democratic senators join him in co-sponsoring the no-confidence resolution. A decision whether to recruit Republican co-sponsors will be made next week. [...]
