Pan-African Parliament officials said over the weekend that the recently approved investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe would be delayed. Zimbabwe has expressed strong opposition to the PAP initiative and Zimbabwean permanent secretary for Foreign Affairs Ministry Joey Bimha warned that police and government officials will only cooperate with an investigation approved by [...]
The Indonesian attorney general's office announced Monday that it will reopen a corruption probe against Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The announcement, made by Director of Investigations Mohammad Salim on the ninth anniversary of the dictator's 1998 resignation , said that the probe will focus on Tommy Suharto's alleged [...]
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in five argued cases Monday, including Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly , where the Court held that a plaintiff filing an antitrust lawsuit under the Sherman Act must allege specific facts in the complaint showing that defendants participated in a conspiracy. William Twombly filed a class-action lawsuit alleging [...]
Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday Monday refuted arguments made by government lawyers that the Supreme Court of Pakistan should not "interfere with proceedings or assume jurisdiction" of the inquiry into alleged misconduct by ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry because the SJC is a fully independent court that is capable of reviewing the legality [...]
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he believed a "sizable number" of Republican members of Congress would join Democrats in a vote of no-confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales . In his appearance on CBS News' Face the Nation, Specter also said he had [...]
The White House over the weekend defended an immigration reform agreement reached Thursday with key Republican and Democratic senators which has drawn opposition from both aisles of Congress, threatening what President Bush called a "secure, productive, orderly, and fair" proposal. The deal has been derided by some Republicans as amounting to "amnesty" for up to [...]
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany announced the resignation of Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei Sunday following the surfacing of multiple allegations of police corruption, including a high-profile case involving the alleged rape of a woman by five on-duty police officers in Budapest. Petretei's resignation still requires the approval of Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom . Public confidence [...]
Romanian voters Saturday rejected a referendum proposal to impeach reformist President Traian Basescu . Basescu was suspended by the opposition-dominated parliament last month for allegedly abusing his powers. Earlier this month, the Romanian Constitutional Court upheld an opposition-sponsored bill making it easier to remove the president by reducing the number of popular votes required for [...]
Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison near his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia Sunday to serve the remainder of his nine-month prison sentence. In March, a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay recommended sentencing Hicks to seven years in prison, but all but nine months of that were effectively [...]
The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) will release 226 inmates from its juvenile prison system after an investigation revealed that their sentences were improperly extended. Commission Special Master Jay Kimbrough, appointed early this month by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to investigate the TYC, formed a six-member panel in March to review extended sentences after inmate advocates [...]
