Russian immigration officials have proposed stricter migrant laws hard on the heels of a call by President Vladimir Putin to crack down on illegal immigrants at a Thursday cabinet meeting. The proposals include harsher penalties for businesses that employ illegal migrants, restricting border crossings, amending the Criminal Code and limiting the duration of visas distributed [...]
Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika Sunday took over the investigation of Saturday's murder of Anna Politkovskaya , an award-winning Russian journalist likely killed for her stories about human rights abuses by Russian troops in Chechnya . Politkovskaya , who had covered the crisis in Chechnya for Novaya Gazeta since 1999, was shot in the head [...]
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee has issued an order striking down about 50 lawsuits brought by British plaintiffs in the New Jersey state court against Merck & Co. , the manufacturer of the drug Vioxx , which has caused health problems for thousands of arthritis patients both in the US and abroad. In [...]
Khalid al-Dulaimi , lead counsel for Saddam Hussein, said Sunday that the defense team will continue its boycott of Hussein’s genocide trial when it resumes Monday. The protest began when chief judge Abdullah al-Amiri was replaced by judge Mohammad Oreibi al-Khalifa at the insistence of the Iraqi government. Oreibi al-Khalifa has attempted to impose strict [...]
Italian prosecutors Saturday announced the end of their investigation into the alleged CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in 2003. The cleric, also known as Abu Omar, was seized on the streets of Milan, supposedly by CIA agents with the help of Italy’s Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) . Prosecutors are [...]
Terrorism Watch List Screening, Government Accountability Office, October 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The head of the justice committee that reviews draft legislation in Turkey's parliament warned in an interview published in a Turkish newspaper Saturday that if France attempts to make it a crime to deny that the Ottoman Empire's treatment of the Armenians in 1915-18 was genocide, Turkey could pass a law penalizing anyone who denies [...]
Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be one of three justices on a panel hearing cases next week for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . Under federal law , current or former federal judges can decide cases for any equal or lower federal court by special appointment. [...]
Ali Khan : "The world will mourn today's brutal murder of Russian journalist and human rights advocate Anna Politkovaskay in Moscow. In writing my book, A Theory of International Terrorism (2006), I relied on Anna Politkovaskaya's reports about the situation in Chechnya that she always delivered with passionate clarity. Below is the story of a [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told US President George W. Bush in a telephone conversation Friday that Canada was filing an official protest regarding the US treatment of Maher Arar , a Canadian citizen detained by US authorities on a 2002 stopover at JFK airport in New York and sent to Syria, where he was [...]
