The US Senate Armed Services Committee voted 15-9 Thursday to send a bill authorizing military commissions drafted by Republican Senators John Warner, Lindsey Graham and John McCain to the full Senate for consideration despite objections from the White House, which has offered its own proposal . The stricter Bush administration bill to establish military trial [...]
Under Fire: Hezbollah's Attacks on Northern Israel, Amnesty International, September 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that a state law requiring voters to show a Missouri-issued photo identification at the polls violates the state constitution because it is "an impermissible additional qualification to vote." Those who support the law say it would prevent voter fraud; opponents say it would place an unnecessary burden on voters, effectively [...]
The Rwandan government Thursday threatened to stop working with the UN-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) because it believes the ICTR employs genocide suspects. Rwanda pointed to the ICTR's pressure on Tanzania to free Callixte Gakwaya, a lawyer accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , as evidence of the tribunal's alleged corruption. [...]
The US Senate unanimously approved a port security bill Thursday that would require the government to install radiation-detection devices at US ports and to test the feasibility of scanning US-bound cargo overseas. Senators nonetheless voted 61-37 against setting a four-year deadline for all US-bound cargo to be scanned for nuclear weapons at foreign ports. While [...]
Ben Davis : "The rejection today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of the President's draft bill on detainees and the voting out of a draft supported by Senators Warner, McCain and Graham and Democrats, together with the opposition expressed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, appear to be progress towards a bill that [...]
A New York appeals court Thursday granted the request of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso to delay the trial in a civil lawsuit filed by the state over the $187.5 million compensation package he received in 2003. The trial was set to begin October 16, but Grasso requested a delay in order [...]
US officials Thursday released two Kuwaiti men who had been held for four years at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, after the military announced their intended transfer over the weekend. It is currently unclear whether Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah Kamel al-Kandari will face charges or further detention in Kuwait, or [...]
The Bush administration said Thursday that the US Senate was "trying to play politics" by putting off a vote on the status of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations . Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) moved to table a committee vote on Bolton last week and the White House says it has been [...]
An Indian court in Mumbai convicted a fifth man Thursday in connection with the 1993 Mumbai bombings , a series of attacks which killed 257 people and injured over 700 others in India's financial center. The court found that Mohammed Ghanser planted explosives near the Zaveri Bazaar market which caused a blast that killed 17 [...]
