Australian state and territory attorneys general demanded action Tuesday in the case of David Hicks , an Australian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Upset that the US has failed to charge Hicks under revised military commission rules, the AGs sent Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock , their federal counterpart, a photo of Hicks' [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Tuesday reduced the sentence of local Bosnian Serb politician Blagoje Simic from 17 to 15 years, after reversing one of his convictions. Simic was convicted on charges of crimes against humanity in 2003, along with Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric, for "persecutions based upon unlawful arrest [...]
The Thai cabinet Tuesday approved a measure to lift martial law in 41 of the country's 76 provinces, including Bangkok, despite a recommendation by coup leader and Army Commander-in-Chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin Monday to retain martial law in the capital city. Thailand has been under a state of martial law since the Thai military seized [...]
A group of United Nations human rights experts on Tuesday urged the Iraqi government to refrain from carrying out the death sentence imposed on Saddam Hussein earlier this month for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail . In a statement from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention , the rights [...]
Two Russian prosecutors were convicted Monday of accepting a $10,000 bribe from a construction company in the country's latest example of corruption in the court and police systems. Sergei Kocherov and Ruslan Fedosenko of the district prosecutor's office in Moscow were sentenced to four years in a maximum security prison, while lawyers for the two [...]
A North Carolina state court judge Monday ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four US contractors killed in Iraq against Blackwater Security Consulting could move forward after being stayed for nearly two years. The company has argued that the case should be litigated in federal court, but the US District [...]
The Lebanese cabinet on Monday sent a draft measure concerning the creation of a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to Lebanese President Emile Lahoud for his approval. Lahoud is not expected to back the accord, having labeled the cabinet's weekend vote on the measure "null and [...]
Report of the Inquiry into certain Australian companies in relation to the UN oil-for-food program, Australian Government Attorney, November 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Supreme Court announced in a one line order Monday that it would not grant a temporary stay in a case involving federal investigators' access to the phone records of two New York Times reporters. The Times filed suit to block access after US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald attempted to obtain records of phone conversations [...]
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa Monday rejected a legal challenge by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to the official results of last month's presidential run-off election . The court declared the challenge unfounded and upheld the victory of incumbent Joseph Kabila , who was declared the winner by a margin [...]
