An Indonesian court on Tuesday handed down the first sentence in connection to the 2005 Bali bombings of three restaurants, which killed two dozen people and injured 200 others. Abdul Aziz, convicted of harboring Noordin Mohammed Top , a suspected terrorist linked to other bombings, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Prosecutors are also [...]

Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Tuesday certified Felipe Calderon as the winner of Mexico's disputed July 2 presidential election . Calderon's opponent, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who argued before the court that preliminary results giving Calderon a victory by just 0.6 percent of the vote were marred by fraud , has already [...]

The Iraqi National Assembly voted on Tuesday to renew the country's state of emergency, in place since November 2004 , for an additional 30 days. The emergency measures are applicable throughout the country, except for the northern autonomous Kurdish region. After a month long summer recess, 180 out of the 275-member parliament voted 161-19 to [...]

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament approved a report Monday taking Turkey to task for slow progress on a variety of legal and other reforms agreed to by Ankara as part of its bid for membership in the European Union . Among other things, Turkey was criticized for its “persistent shortcomings in areas [...]

Federal prosecutors have asked that a judge sentence civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 30 years in prison, saying that Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession … deserves to be severely punished." Stewart was convicted of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists for helping imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with his terrorist followers. [...]

UK Home Secretary John Reid has promised to go ahead with Tuesday's planned deportations of 32 Iraqis who sought asylum in the UK, saying that only a court injunction will prevent the plane carrying the Iraqis from leaving and that his office "may decide not to defer removal" despite last-minute applications for judicial review. This [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Justice Arthur Chaskalson, President of the International Commission of Jurists and former Chief Justice of South Africa, says that although the threat of terrorism is real, five years after the September 11 attacks on the United States it's not at all clear that the legal response to that threat has been [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England School of Law say that Congress needs to step in to counter the Bush administration's apparent efforts to limit the ability of uniformed military lawyers to advise on future military commissions while it favors the input of its own political appointees… The U.S. Supreme [...]

Criminal Terrorism Enforcement in the United States During the Five Years Since the 9/11/01 Attacks, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, September 4, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied rumors Monday that a deal was underway to trade Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Cpl. Gilad Shalit , an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants since June 25 . In a speech to parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee, Olmert said he heard of the negotiations from the press. [...]