JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that the Fifth Circuit ruling blocking Texas Republicans – at the instance of Texas Democrats – from declaring Tom DeLay ineligible to run again for his Texas congressional seat sets a bad precedent for [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Thursday said that the Kyrgyzstan decision to extradite four Uzbekistan refugees and one asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan earlier this week was a breach of Kyrgyzstan's obligations under the Convention Against Torture and warned that the five face a grave risk of torture . Arbour said [...]
Deepening Crisis in Darfur Two Months After the Peace Agreement: An Assessment, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, August 10, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US District Judge T.S. Ellis has upheld the constitutionality of the 1917 Espionage Act , refusing to dismiss charges against two former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman were indicted last year under the Espionage Act for allegedly conspiring to receive and disclose classified US defense information [...]
US v. Campa, United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit, August 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that seventeen cases challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program be transferred to the chief judge of the US Northern District of California . In an order issued Wednesday, the panel wrote: On the basis of the papers filed and hearing session held, the Panel [...]
US v. Steven J. Rosen et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, August 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A US federal appeals court opinion upholding the convictions of five accused Cuban spies prompted condemnation from the Cuban government Thursday, who called the decision political and unfair. The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc, on Wednesday handed down a 120-page decision overturning the decision of a three-judge Eleventh Circuit [...]
Letter dated 7 August from the UN Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council, August 7, 2006 . Excerpt: The attack on Qana should be seen in the broader context of what could, on the basis of preliminary information available to the United Nations, including eyewitness accounts, be a pattern of violations of international [...]
Police in Argentina have arrested three former officials suspected of human rights violations during the country's "Dirty War" , the former military junta's campaign against its domestic opponents – at least 13,000 of whom "disappeared" from 1976 to 1983. Authorities arrested Raul Antonio Guglielminetti, a former intelligence agent, late Wednesday in connection with a series [...]
