Zimbabwe prosecutors failed to appear in court on Wednesday to prosecute opposition presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangirai , arrested at a protest in Harare Sunday, leaving him free to return home. On Monday, Tsvangirai's lawyer and party officials said he was beaten while in police custody; he appeared in court Tuesday with a large gash on [...]
Senator John McGee : "We are a nation of immigrants. Legal immigrants have played, and continue to play, an integral and welcome role in our country's growth and development. But the key word is "legal." In the last 15 years, "illegal immigration" has become a baffling problem that puts enormous financial and social pressure on [...]
China uses the same strict organ donation procedures when accepting organs from executed criminals as any other organ donations, an anonymous senior Chinese Supreme Court official told the state Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday. The court official said that China only harvests organs from executed criminals when either the criminal or their family consents, and [...]
Several Native American groups are voicing opposition to a proposed Oklahoma law that would require all official state business be conducted in English on the grounds, arguing it would stifle efforts to revive tribal languages. As drafted, the Oklahoma English Language Act contains exceptions including "teaching or studying other languages," protecting the rights of criminal [...]
Passage of a draft law aimed at dividing oil proceeds among various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq is critical to continued US support of the current Iraqi government, associates of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told AP Tuesday. The draft oil law approved by the Iraqi cabinet in late February is now before the Iraqi [...]
Several US soldiers testified against their former squad leader Tuesday in a case relating to the killing of several Iraqi detainees after a May 9, 2006 raid in Thar Thar, a town near Samarra in Iraq's Salahuddin province. Staff Sgt. Raymond Girouard faces court-martial on charges of premeditated murder for his alleged involvement in the [...]
In celebration of JURIST's 10th anniversary, JURIST and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are hosting a one-day conference in Pittsburgh on Thursday, March 29. Law as a Seamless Web|site will feature four panels and 14 distinguished speakers exploring a range of issues at the intersections of law, war, rights, social justice, technology, legal [...]
Defense lawyers for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan have filed an appeal with the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) , asking the court to overturn Ramadan's death sentence . Ramadan was convicted by the IHT alongside Saddam Hussein in November and originally sentenced to life in prison. The IHT Appeals Chamber later deemed the [...]
A Turkish prosecutor officially filed charges against political science professor Atilla Yayla Tuesday for "insulting the legacy" of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founder of modern Turkey. The professor is being prosecuted for a November 18 speech, in which he stated that Ataturk's rule from 1925 to 1945 was not as progressive as some believe. [...]
The Tokyo High Court overturned a landmark decision on Tuesday that had held both the Japanese government and Rinko Corp. responsible for forcing Chinese citizens into slave labor during World War II. The 2004 lower court ruling mandated that Rinko Corp. and the government of Japan pay the Chinese plaintiffs $760,000 in damages for the [...]
