A Peruvian judge on Thursday indicted Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the June Peruvian presidential election to present incumbent Alan Garcia , for murder, torture and kidnapping stemming from his position as an army captain in Peru's San Martin province during the 1990s. Earlier this month, prosecutors filed informal charges against [...]
A tough amendment to Russia's copyright protection law designed to crack down on the Internet piracy of text, music and videos took effect Friday as part of Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization . The Russian parliament originally approved the amendment to Russia's existing copyright protection law in July 2004; it granted website [...]
Several voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio Thursday demanding that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell preserve the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election , just two days before federal law allows states to destroy the ballots. The voting rights groups, including the Ohio Voter Rights Alliance [...]
An attorney for US Army Sgt. Ricky Clousing , an Iraq war veteran, said Thursday that his client will face a desertion charge at a special court-martial stemming from his June 2005 defection from Fort Bragg . Clousing, who has said he refuses to participate in a war with "no legal basis to be fought," [...]
New Orleans Parish criminal court Judge Arthur Hunter Thursday deferred a threatened review of prisoner records in anticipation of release which he earlier said he would begin on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Tuesday. Instead, Hunter said that New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan must sort through the backlog of an estimated 6,000 pending [...]
California's State Assembly passed the nation's first bill to restrict greenhouse gas emissions Thursday, by a vote of 46-31. The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 grants new authority to the California Air Resources Board to set specific emission targets for various industries and set fees to raise money for new emission reduction initiatives. The [...]
The UN Security Council passed a resolution Thursday authorizing the deployment of UN peacekeeping troops to the Darfur region of Sudan under the authority of the current UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) . The new peacekeeping force will replace the current African Union force whose mandate is set to expire September 30. The resolution [...]
Margarita Lopez Torres et al. v. New York State Board of Elections et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, August 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, August 31, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Israeli military court trying Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik and 18 Hamas cabinet ministers on charges of membership in a terrorist organization adjourned Thursday after granting defense lawyers two days to prepare arguments on diplomatic immunity . The defense, which asked for an eight-day extension, contends that the officials should be shielded from prosecution [...]
