A court in Indonesia Thursday convicted a fourth man of being involved in the October 2005 bombings of three restaurants in Bali which killed 26 civilians and injured over 100 people. The Denpasar district court sentenced Anif Solchanudin to 15 years in prison for his role in helping to plan the attacks. The former cell [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John Bickers of Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, says that for all the attention being paid to the procedures proposed for new US military commissions, how those procedures are used – who is to be tried, and when – is a far more vital issue… Since President Bush’s September 6 [...]
Netherlands Minister of Justice Piet Hein Donner Wednesday defended controversial comments he made during an interview suggesting that if a large majority of the Dutch people wanted to be ruled by Islamic law, then that couldn't be legally prevented. The comments drew intense criticism from opposition politicians who have opposed the potential implementation of what [...]
Amnesty International Thursday released a report accusing Hezbollah of violating international law by deliberately and indiscriminately killing Israeli civilians through its firing of rockets into Israel during the 34-day Middle East conflict . The rights group said Hezbollah militants committed war crimes when they failed to distinguish between civilian and military areas when launching thousands [...]
The Role of Judges in a Modern Democracy, UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer Magna Carta Lecture, Sydney, Australia, September 13, 2006 . Read the full text of the speech. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak case , and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, have now sued former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage for serving as the primary source responsible for disclosing Plame's CIA affiliation to columnist Robert Novak in the summer of 2003. Armitage confirmed last [...]
The US House Armed Services Committee approved its version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Wednesday, a bill that would permit the use of military commissions for terror detainees and enemy combatants. President Bush presented the legislation to Congress last Friday. Meanwhile, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) , chairman of the US Senate Armed Services [...]
A Jordan military court concluded two separate terrorism cases Wednesday, convicting a total of 10 suspected militants, including two fugitives in absentia, of charges stemming from alleged plots to kill Americans in Jordan . The court sentenced the suspects to terms ranging from 10 to 20 years with hard labor, though lawyers for both sets [...]
Two US congressmen on Wednesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia requesting Judge Emmett Sullivan to order the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision to treat tax-exempt 527 groups on a case-by-case basis or, in the alternative, to issue new rules requiring [...]
UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells called for the redefinition of "war crimes" in light of the recent Mideast conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, during a Wednesday hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament . Howells blamed the "ruthless" tactics of Hezbollah, such as storing weapons in schools and apartment blocks, [...]
