A Serbian war crimes court on Monday sentenced Anton Lekaj , a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army , to 13 years in prison for the murder of four Kosovo gypsies, as well as several instances of torture, rape and sexual molestation committed in 1999. The court determined that Lekaj abducted the group of [...]
The European Data Protection Supervisor , the European Union's data watchdog official, on Monday condemned a now-voided agreement between the EU and the US forcing European airlines to share passenger data with US authorities for transatlantic flights, saying it lacked sufficient rights safeguards. Peter Hustinx said in a press conference that a new passenger data [...]
The second Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday with more testimony from prosecution witnesses in the case involving the "Anfal" operation that killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. One former Kurdish rebel testified that he was temporarily blinded as a result of chemical attacks allegedly launched on the village by Iraqi [...]
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur crisis and not focus exclusively on the situation in Lebanon . Urging delegates to "not disappoint the hopes of humanity," Annan said: The world is [...]
Ben Davis : "Back in 1994 when the US ratified the Convention Against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment ("CAT") it included reservations, understanding, and declarations ("RUD's) as regards the prohibitions against cruel, inhuman and degrading ("CID") treatment. Those RUD's interpreted CID to mean the US constitutional standard – the so called "shocks the [...]
The British government Monday proposed closing off the possibility of overturning criminal convictions on legal technicalities where the guilt of accuseds is clear. In a new consultation paper the Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor, and the Attorney General argue that if the Court of Appeal is convinced that the defendant in fact committed the offense [...]
The Turkish parliament, the Grand National Assembly , is scheduled to meet Tuesday, two weeks earlier than usual, to work on passing reform measures aimed at gaining membership to the European Union . The EU has cautioned Turkey that its EU bid will not be accepted unless the country improves its record on torture and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that recent problems at Hewlett-Packard related to board leaks and their investigation could have been avoided with a little thought and the application of basic corporate governance principles… In Jim Collins’s award winning book about rock solid companies, Built to Last, [...]
An Israeli military court on Monday postponed a decision on whether 21 defendants, who were who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June, should be released from detention while their cases are examined. Last Tuesday, the military court ordered the 21 defendants released on bail , but [...]
Hewlett-Packard's deadline to submit documents to the US House Energy and Commerce Committee expires Monday, and two top executives have been asked to testify before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on the topic of "pretexting," a method of tricking companies into divulging their customers' records, a practice HP is alleged to have engaged in during [...]
