An African Union panel recommended on Friday that former Chadian president Hissene Habre , accused of committing torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, face trial in Africa instead of in Belgium, which last September issued an international arrest warrant for the ex-dictator, who has been in exile in Senegal since 1990. The [...]
Federal prosecutors Friday argued that the homes and other assets owned by former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were obtained by fraud, and petitioned a judge to order the two men to turn over nearly $183 million in assets. Last month, a jury in Houston convicted Lay on all six fraud and conspiracy [...]
The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both Israel and the US as unfair. Islamic countries lobbied in favor of the resolution, which passed 29-12, while Israel said the measure simply perpetuated [...]
A spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer Friday criticized the California State Office of Homeland Security for tracking antiwar protests over the past few months, calling it a violation of civil liberties. Reports obtained by the Los Angeles Times document protests including a demonstration where US Rep. George Miller (D-CA) spoke against the war [...]
Lawyers for several Guantanamo detainees claimed Friday that the US military had seized letters from them to their clients and had also taken other legal papers from their clients in an investigation into three inmate suicides at the camp last month. Defense Department officials have refused to comment on the allegations. A lawyer for one [...]
Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said Friday that Congress must be cautious about passing an alternative to military commissions at Guantanamo Bay , which were struck down by the US Supreme Court earlier this week. Warner is chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee and will lead hearings on the issue in July. He said [...]
Secretary of State for the Home Department v JJ & Ors EWHC 1623 (Admin), June 28, 2006, UK High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Adminitrative Court, in the matter of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, Mr. Justice Jeremy Sullivan . Excerpt: The importance of protecting members of the public from the risk of [...]
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UN Human Rights Council, June 30, 2006 . Read the full text of the declaration. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday convicted Naser Oric , a former senior commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in Srebrenica, for failing to prevent the murder and inhumane treatment of Serb prisoners. Oric, sentenced to two years in prison , will be released immediately for time already served. Oric's indictment alleged [...]
The Iraqi High Tribunal said on Friday that while coalition forces still provide physical protection for former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz , he has been safe and in no danger in the legal custody of the Iraqi judiciary since June 30, 2004, when the US-led coalition forces handed Iraq over to the transitional government. [...]
