Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok has slipped into a coma in a Phnom Penh hospital. His lawyer has told reporters he could die this week and is unlikely to survive until the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal begins holding trials next year. The one-legged Ta Mok, formerly a zone secretary and central committee member [...]
NAACP leaders say that at least 1,000 members attending the organization's annual convention now underway in Washington, DC will go to Capital Hill this Wednesday to urge the Senate to renew portions of the Voting Rights Act that are soon to expire. NAACP President Bruce Gordon stated that "the NAACP is paying close attention" to [...]
L.K. Advani , leader of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , said in a speech Sunday in Bhopal that the July 11 Mumbai train bombings were "a fallout of repealing" the country's Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) , set aside by the now-ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) when it came to power in 2004. [...]
The British Home Office is considering enacting rules that would dismiss company directors and seize assets of firms caught employing illegal immigrants, the Sunday Times has reported. Under the new rules, employers could even be punished if contractors or sub-contractors were employing illegal immigrants. A proposal by Home Secretary John Reid is said to include [...]
North Korea (DPRK) Sunday condemned a UN Security Council resolution passed unanimously Saturday imposing sanctions on the country and demanding that it stop controversial missile tests . The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported an unnamed DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that North Korea "vehemently denounces and roundly refutes the UN 'resolution.'" The unidentified [...]
Resolution 1695 (2006), UN Security Council, July 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the resolution. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to adopt a compromise resolution on recent missile tests by North Korea (DPRK) directing it to stop the launches and calling on member states to impose weapons-related sanctions, but did not invoke Chapter 7 of the UN Charter as proposed by Japan in an earlier draft , which [...]
Italian prosecutors on Saturday questioned Nicolo Pollari, chief of the Italian Intelligence and Security Services , regarding his role in the alleged CIA extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr , also known as Abu Omar. Italian police arrested two intelligence officials with the Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) earlier this month [...]
Politicians, civil rights advocates and privacy advocates have criticized the recent White House agreement allowing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to determine the constitutionality of the NSA's controversial domestic spying program . In reaction to the plan US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) plans to re-introduce a proposal blocking NSA funding unless intelligence warrants are [...]
Former NatWest bankers David Bermingham, Giles Darby and Gary Mulgrew, pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of seven counts of wire fraud for an allegedly fraudulent sale of Enron stock. The bankers were extradited to the US Thursday following a three year court battle to prevent the extradition. The extradition also prompted protests from [...]
