Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Monday appointed an independent commission to investigate "the series of extrajudicial killings of journalists and militant activists in the country." Arroyo has been criticized for the government's failure to solve the growing number of politically motivated killings of leftist activists and journalists. Members of Bayan , a leftist advocacy group, [...]
Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , on Monday called Serbia's continued failure to arrest war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic "inexcusable," saying he should be on trial with a group of seven Bosnian Serb military and paramilitary officers charged with massacring 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in [...]
Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea Monday as he and six co-defendants went on trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation that led to the killings of as many as 100,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri entered a plea of [...]
Israeli intelligence forces on Sunday arrested Mahmoud al-Ramahi, a top member of Hamas and secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council , one day after Israeli forces detained the Palestinian deputy prime minister . Israel regards Hamas as a terrorist organization and has arrested many members of the Hamas leadership in recent months, beginning with the [...]
A spokesman for the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged Iranian prosecutors to pursue charges against several Iranian newspapers who have published articles accusing Ahmadinejad of financial wrongdoing in recent weeks. In a letter sent to Tehran's prosecutor, government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham accused the media of "spreading lies" and said that the [...]
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Sunday that Israel had committed crimes against humanity during its month-long bombing campaign in the current Middle East conflict . Touring areas outside of Beirut that had been hard hit by the bombings, Siniora called Israel's actions criminal, saying they reflected "Israel's hatred to destroy Lebanon and its unity." [...]
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Sunday called for the release of Deputy Prime Minister and Hamas party member Nasser Shaer, who was arrested Saturday morning after Israeli soldiers forced entry into an apartment where Shaer and his family have been hiding for several weeks. Israeli forces took Shaer for questioning as part of its [...]
US District Judge T. S. Ellis III has set aside the $10 million verdict against private military contractor Custer Battles , ruling that the former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq could not be considered a US government entity. Custer Battles was sued for defrauding the US government under the False Claims Act and a [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that politicians' increasing use of abusive language to describe Islam in the context of the war on terror is symptomatic of multiple problems in Anglo-American democracy and culture… It is becoming fashionable for elected officials in the Anglo-American world, notably in the United [...]
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks was stripped of British citizenship just one day after he was secretly made a citizen in July, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday. Hicks' court battle for British citizenship ended in May when the UK Court of Appeals said that it would not allow further appeals from the British [...]
