Philip Rosenthal : "Today, 14 November 2006, the National Assembly debated and voted to pass the Civil Union Bill. The Bill is an insult to marriage and a trashing of democracy. It will open the door for more attacks on morality, religious freedom and children's rights. This is a day of shame for South Africa. [...]
US v. Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, November 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US Marines Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III will face court-martial for his role in the April kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania , the US Marine Corps announced Tuesday. Hutchins faces charges of murder, kidnapping, larceny, assault, housebreaking, conspiracy, making a false official statement in violation of the Uniform Code of Military [...]
War crimes complaint against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisors filed with the German Federal Prosecutor on behalf of eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and others, November 14, 2006. Read [...]
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton denounced the disparity in federal sentencing requirements for possession of crack cocaine and cocaine powder in testimony Tuesday before the US Sentencing Commission . Citing the 100-1 differential (5 grams of crack carry a mandatory 5 year sentence while it takes 500 grams of cocaine to get that same [...]
US Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment hearing to charges of murder, kidnapping, and other offenses related to the death of an Iraqi man in Hamdania . Thomas is among several servicemen accused of kidnapping Hashim Ibrahim Awad and leaving him by the side of the road with a [...]
Incoming US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) said Tuesday that his committee's priorities will include an investigation into CIA extraordinary rendition flights . In an interview with the Financial Times, Levin said he was uncomfortable with the system and believes "that there's been some significant abuses which have not made us more [...]
Bosnia's national war crimes court sentenced a former Bosnian Serb soldier to 16 years in prison Tuesday in the first judgment handed down against a defendant transferred to Bosnia from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The War Crimes Chamber of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted and [...]
Giovanni Di Stefano : "Below are the names of those Iraq detainees who are subject to a 2004 agreement between the UK/Italy and the Iraqi government witnessed by the US Government that whilst capital punishment can be imposed as a sentence cannot actually have such sentence executed. All were 'captured' or surrendered in 2003 in [...]
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith said Tuesday in an interview on BBC Radio 4 that he wants to examine whether new religious hate legislation passed in Parliament earlier this year and scheduled to come into force in February could fill a "gap" in existing law supposedly pointed up by Friday's acquittals of two British [...]
