Leading Monday's international brief, a Sudanese government official has denied reports that Sudan would accept UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region as inaccurate and unfounded. Sudan has continually rejected all attempts to deploy UN peacekeepers, saying that they feared Western imperialism and would allow only African Union peacekeepers. Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim [...]
Lawyers for five Kuwaitis formerly detained at Guantanamo told a Kuwait criminal court Sunday that the Kuwaiti courts lack any foundation for convicting their clients of having links with al Qaeda . Their lawyers questioned the court’s jurisdiction over persons accused of committing crimes abroad and the legitimacy of evidence collected by US interrogators at [...]
In an effort to restore his image and keep his job, Iraqi interior minister Bayan Jabor announced Sunday that a general serving in the ministry has been arrested in connection with kidnappings and death squads . Seventeen others arrested with the general are facing similar accusations. Jabor said a terror group had been found in [...]
Leaders of Nepal's Maoist rebel insurgency on Sunday called for an interim constitution to be enacted before a special assembly gathers to draft a new charter. The Maoists and a seven-party alliance of opposition political parties joined forces in a number of pro-democracy protests last month which led to King Gyanedra reinstating parliament at the [...]
Serbian police launched a full scale search on Sunday for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic but were unable to arrest the former Bosnian Serb army commander wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on genocide charges. The European Union called off membership talks with Serbia last week over the country's failure [...]
US President George W. Bush said Sunday that closing the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a possibility in the future depending on the US Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , which will determine the legality of military trials for Guantanamo detainees. The Court's decision on whether military commissions for foreign terror [...]
Israeli police on Sunday evicted a group of Jewish settlers squatting in a Palestinian house in the West Bank city of Hebron, a region where Jewish settlement is no longer allowed. Three settler families left peacefully, but police scuffled with two dozen teenagers who initially refused to leave the house. 19 settlers were arrested. This [...]
Opposition lawmakers in Thailand are planning lawsuits against the Thai Election Commission (EC) over last months troubled parliamentary election . Suthep Thuagsuban, secretary general of the Democrat Party , has said that he will file a criminal lawsuit against four EC members, alleging they violated election laws by helping members of certain political parties. The [...]
Iranian lawmakers have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which it signed in 1968, if "the U.N. Secretary General and other members of the U.N. Security Council fail in their crucial responsibility to resolve differences peacefully." The letter was read aloud on state-run radio [...]
Smelt et al. v. Orange County California et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May 5, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
