The trial of six suspected Islamic militants accused of planning an attack against Dutch politicians began Monday in the Netherlands. The defendants include twenty-year-old Samir Azzouz , whose previous acquittal sparked intense criticism of Dutch anti-terrorism laws. Azzouz has been arrested three times in the Netherlands and was acquitted last year of participating in a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the recent UN Security Council resolution on North Korea passed in the wake of its nuclear test is a precedent-setting instance of aggressive collective action against would-be nuclear proliferation that could impact Iran, Israel, and other potential nuclear weapons states… The UN [...]
Jonathan Hafetz : "On Oct. 12, 2006, Mohammed Munaf, an American citizen, was convicted and sentenced to death by a criminal court in Iraq for his alleged role in a kidnapping. Mr. Munaf maintains his innocence. According to Mr. Munaf's Iraqi counsel, two American military officials appeared during the proceeding, met privately with the judge [...]
The number of hate crimes committed in the US in 2005 fell 6 percent when compared to 2004 numbers, but the percentage of race-based incidents increased slightly, according to figures in a new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) . In 2005, police forces across the country reported 7,163 hate crimes based on [...]
Two terror suspects whose movement had been restricted under control orders in the UK were reported as missing Monday. One of the individuals is an Iraqi who appears to have been missing for several months, while the other suspect, a British man of Pakistani origin, escaped through the window of a mental health facility earlier [...]
Weinschenk v. Missouri, Supreme Court of Missouri, October 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURISTs Paper Chase here.
Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , once again on Monday strongly criticized Serbia's lack of progress in the capture and arrest of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic and discouraged the European Union from resuming membership talks with Belgrade. Del Ponte called Serbia's erstwhile efforts to [...]
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recommended that three ex-employees of Anvil Mining , an Australian company, be tried for complicity in war crimes committed by Congolese government soldiers in 2004. The crimes alleged to have been facilitated by the ex-employees, a Canadian and two South Africans, include summary executions, rape, [...]
US Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III appeared in military court Monday to contest charges of kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi civilian in April. Hutchins was the leader of an eight-man squad in Hamdania that allegedly took Hashim Ibrahim Awad from his home and shot him without provocation. A total of eight US military personnel were [...]
Dr. Lester Crawford , a veterinarian who served briefly as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year, will plead guilty to failure to disclose his financial interest in companies regulated by the agency, his lawyer said Monday. Crawford is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday to enter guilty pleas to [...]
