ICTY chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and EU diplomats have criticized a new Serbian plan to arrest war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic as too vague, although they acknowledged "positive elements." The six-point document , which Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica discussed with EU diplomats Monday in Brussels, emphasizes improved coordination between Serb authorities and the [...]
British Home Secretary John Reid announced Monday that he is banning four groups under the UK Terrorism Act 2006 . The UK-based Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect , as well as the foreign groups Baluchistan Liberation Army and Teyrebaz Azadiye Kurdistan, are the first groups to be named under a controversial Terrorist Act provision that [...]
The government of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is planning to introduce a new law that will clear victims' names and "correct" trial records in an effort to bring justice to victims of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco . Some 55,000 people were killed during Franco's 36-year regime. Officials plan to reveal [...]
Leaders of the US House of Representatives have decided to move forward with a vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment , which would amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage, despite a failed vote on the Senate floor in June. As with the Senate vote, the House vote on Tuesday is expected to fall [...]
British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have decided not to prosecute any individual police officers for the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot and killed by London police last year after the July London bombings . CPS said there is "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction [...]
Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said Monday. Hussein began the hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three defense lawyers, which the defendants [...]
The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri , a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition , the German Justice Ministry said Sunday. El-Masri has sued the CIA in the United [...]
Israel is using "internationally prohibited weapons against civilians" in Lebanon as the country faces "real annihilation," according to a statement from Lebanon Information Minister Ghazi Aridi Sunday after an emergency cabinet meeting. Lebanese media reports state that Israel used phosphorus incendiary bombs and vacuum bombs that suck up air and facilitate building collapses. The use [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that as the Ugandan government starts peace talks with the notorious Lord's Resistance Army and holds out a promise of amnesty for leader [...]
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who lost the July 2 presidential election by 0.6 percent of the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon , asked supporters Sunday to begin a campaign of "peaceful civil resistance" to bring about a manual recount of the election. Without specifying what supporters should do to facilitate [...]
