Chinese government authorities detained 28 people for either their alleged role in riots in southwestern China over the weekend or communicating information concerning the riots, according to reports from Xinhua, China's state media agency. Xinhua said that an estimated 300 to 3000 farmers discontented with efforts by local government officials to more strictly enforce China's [...]
Suspended Romanian President Trian Basescu was reinstated Wednesday after the Romanian Constitutional Court certified results of a weekend referendum where 74 percent of voters rejected Basescu's impeachment . Basescu was suspended in April by a 322-108 vote in the Romanian Parliament after the prime minister made accusations that Basescu was involved in suspicious multi-million-dollar energy [...]
The government of Burundi and the United Nations (UN) agreed Wednesday to establish a tribunal to try those accused of war crimes during the nation's 12-year civil war , according to the UN. Burundi has also agreed to create a truth and reconciliation commission. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said the government [...]
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine limited the president's power to appoint and dismiss members of local judiciaries on Wednesday. The ruling affirmed that of the country's High Justice Council . In Ukraine, local judges and their deputies are first appointed by the Ukrainian Supreme Court. The president then has the power to approve or dismiss [...]
The US House of Representatives narrowly passed the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act Wednesday, approving heavy criminal penalties for oil companies and individuals who take "unfair advantage" or charge "unconscionably excessive" prices for fuel. House leaders used an expedited legislative process, so the bill required a two-thirds majority and passed by 284-141 . The Bush [...]
Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice upheld the rights of trade unions in two opinions Wednesday. In Laval v. Partneri (C-341/05) , Mengozzi advised the court to allow trade unions to force companies from foreign EU member states to pay their workers the same that domestic workers would otherwise receive. Latvian [...]
Milorad Ulemek, paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic , was convicted with 11 others on Wednesday for the assassination of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic . The Special Court in Belgrade sentenced Ulemek to 40 years imprisonment, the maximum sentence allowed under Serbian law, finding that he organized the assassination. Zvezdan Jovanovic, was convicted of [...]
Former US Department of Justice aide Monica Goodling testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the fired US Attorneys scandal , saying she did not play a key role in the firings but believed that previous Senate Judiciary Committee testimony by Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was "incomplete or inaccurate in a number of [...]
Amnesty International Report 2007: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, March 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Mahmoud Baiai and Izabela Trzcinska, et al., England and Wales Court of Appeal, May 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
