The Egyptian government said Tuesday that voters overwhelmingly approved 34 amendments to the country's constitution despite low voter turnout in the referendum overall. Egyptian Justice Minister Mamdouh Marei said that almost 76 percent of those voting cast their ballot in favor of the amendments but only 27 percent of Egyptians actually showed up to the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that creating an independent multi-ethnic state in Kosovo would almost certainly be a human rights disaster for the 200,000 Serbs living there… The United States is on the verge of pushing a resolution through the UN Security Council declaring Kosovo to be an [...]
A senior aide of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than testify regarding the events surrounding the firing of eight US Attorneys . Monica Goodling, the US Justice Department's liaison to the White House, was one of the aides who took part in [...]
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may be sentenced this week after pleading guilty Monday to a charge of supporting terrorism and could return home to serve his sentence by the end of the year, according to US military officials. Col. Ralph Kohlmann, the judge presiding over Hicks' military commission , issued a gag order [...]
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism at an appearance before a US military commission Monday after the presiding judge unexpectedly disqualified two of his three lawyers. Judge Colonel Ralph Kohlmann barred civilian lawyer Joshua Dratel from the court because Dratel had not signed a form saying he [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that suspected Al Qaeda operative Abdul Malik had been transferred to the Guantanamo Bay prison over the weekend. According to the statement, Malik has confessed to participating in the 2002 Paradise Hotel attack in Mombasa, Kenya, in which 13 people were killed when an explosive-filled SUV drove [...]
Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced Monday that he has vetoed five bills promoting the death penalty . House Bill 2750 and House Bill 2347 sought to make the murder of a judge and the murder of a witness in a criminal case, respectively, into capital crimes; Senate Bill 1116 proposed a similar measure. House [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case of Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. , 06-480 , in which a clothing manufacturer requests the Court to overrule a 1911 Supreme Court decision, Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. that held any minimum price agreement [...]
Italian general prosecutor Piero De Petris asked an appeals court in Milan Monday to sentence former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to five years in prison for bribing judges to stop the auction of the SME state-owned food company to a rival in 1985. Berlusconi, who denies the allegations, was acquitted of the charges by [...]
The trial of Desiré Munyaneza began Monday in Montreal where the former Rwandan militia commander faces seven charges in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide , including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The first witness, who remained anonymous for her protection, testified Monday that Munyaneza, a Hutu, assisted in rounding up Tutsi men [...]
