Russian prosecutors have brought new money laundering charges against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky , his lawyers said Monday. Khodorkovsky was convicted in May 2005 of tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in prison. The Russian government effectively nationalized Yukos to pay off $33 billion in back taxes and Khodorkovsky's lawyers have insisted that [...]
A prominent French Socialist Party (PS) leader called Sunday for France to recognize its crimes in colonial Algeria , including the alleged massacres of 45,000 Algerians demanding independence at the end of World War II, but stopped short of calling for an official French apology. Speaking at a conference in Algiers, Jack Lang , a [...]
Kuwaiti draft legislation broadening women's rights was approved by a parliamentary panel Sunday and will likely be debated in the house in the next two months. The panel's head, MP Saleh Ashour , revealed that the bill would make government housing, currently only offered to married men, available to women who are married to non-citizens, [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad introduced Gholam Hossein Elham as his candidate for justice minister to the parliament Sunday. Elham, a strong supporter of Ahmadinejad, currently works as official spokesperson for the Iranian government . In order for Elham to be officially named to the post, the Parliament will conduct a vote of confidence which is [...]
Australian Prime Minister John Howard spoke out Sunday in support of the Pentagon's decision to recharge 31-year-old David Hicks , the single Australian terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay , notwithstanding US inclusion of a criminal count – providing material support to terrorists – that was only put into law four months ago. Australian defense lawyers [...]
Bangladeshi security forces picked up 13 ex-ministers and senior politicians from their homes in raids in Dhaka Sunday. The government cited recently-promulgated emergency powers as the basis for the detentions. Bangladesh country has been in political turmoil since former prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina began feuding over proposed electoral reforms. After the disagreements [...]
Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor made her decision to step down in July 2005 after consulting with then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist , according to a Newsweek interview released Sunday. O'Connor told the magazine, talked a little bit. I was concerned about whether he had an intention to step down since his plans [...]
House Page Board Revision Act of 2007, White House, February 3, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The head of the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) expressed concern Saturday about increased human rights violations by security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo , particularly those in the remote eastern portions of the country. MONUC Chief of Mission William Swing told Reuters in an interview that it [...]
US President George W. Bush signed a bill Friday to help monitor US congressional pages by expanding the supervisory House Page Board to include a former page and a current or former page's parent. Reps. Dale Kildee, (D-MI), the new board chairman, and Shelley Moore Capito,(R-WV), co-sponsored the bill in response to the 2006 scandal [...]
