Bushra Khalil, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Monday that she believes Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the Kurdish judge presiding over Hussein's trial , is harsher on her than other lawyers because she is a Shiite. Khalil was thrown out of court for the second time Monday after being added to Hussein's defense [...]
Legal experts with the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have questioned the credibility of some of the Cambodian judges who have been approved to serve on a war crimes tribunal that will hear cases against former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. Earlier this month, King Norodom Sihamoni approved a list [...]
The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs is reportedly preparing a document that recommends a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly inciting genocide with anti-Israel remarks . A group of Israeli diplomats, including former UN Ambassador Dore Gold , say Ahmadinejad's comments violate the 1948 UN Genocide Convention . Lawyers expect to send a [...]
The South Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) on Monday rejected an appeal of its antitrust decision against Microsoft . In December, the KFTC issued a preliminary ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position by bundling its media viewer and instant-messaging software with its Windows operating system. The KFTC fined Microsoft the equivalent of [...]
Royal Dutch Shell PLC will wait for a Nigerian appeals court ruling rather than pay a $1.5 billion judgment to compensate ethnic communities in Nigeria for pollution from its operations. A company spokesman said paying the judgment, which was due at noon Monday, would be inappropriate because of its appeal . Shell was ordered to [...]
A federal grand jury in Ohio on Monday indicted seven former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises on charges of conspiracy, fraud, and promotion of money laundering. The seven former executives of the health care financing company are accused of conspiring to defraud investors of $3 billion by lying to investors about how their funds [...]
US oil companies did not illegally manipulate gasoline prices or restrain supply last year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina , according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report released Monday. US antitrust authorities performed an investigation of the oil industry, and, like several past investigations, found no evidence of price manipulation by refiners or [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has denied prosecutors' request to transfer the trial of Rwandan genocide suspect Michel Bagaragaza to Norway because Norway does not have a specific law against genocide. In its decision , the UN-backed court said: In this case, it is apparent that the Kingdom of Norway does not have jurisdiction [...]
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith is to meet with senior Israeli officials Thursday to discuss whether Israeli soldiers should be charged with war crimes for shooting two Britons in 2003. The families of James Miller, an award-winning cameraman, and Tom Hurndall, a peace activist, have asked Goldsmith to prosecute the Israeli soldiers under the [...]
Court-martial proceedings against US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona began Monday on charges of maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and assault connected to Cardona's alleged use of unmuzzled dogs when questioning detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . A second dog handler, Sgt. Michael Smith, was convicted earlier this year and sentenced to six [...]
