US District Judge Leonie Brinkema late Friday refused a media motion for immediate access to admitted documentary evidence and bench transcripts in the sentencing trial of accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, ruling that the court did not have the resources to provide such access and that it would undermine the integrity of the proceeding [...]
An appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ruled Friday that former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj can return to politics in Kosovo during his provisional release pending trial for war crimes scheduled to begin in 2007 , but only on condition that any requests by him to appear in public [...]
The Prosecutor v. Ivica Marijacic and Markica Rebic, Trial Chamber, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, March 10, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Andrew Wood : "Exactly one year ago I was in the southeastern Sri Lankan village of Kirinda wrapping up a three month stint of relief work following the Asian tsunami. Now, as I reflect from New Orleans in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina, I cannot help but compare the two situations. Though two completely [...]
US Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigned from the Bush cabinet Friday after a five-year run, and will officially leave office at the end of March. In her resignation letter , the former Colorado Attorney General told the President that her decision was motivated by a desire to return home to Denver. While notorious in some [...]
A federal jury has found private military contractor Custer Battles guilty of 37 fraudulent acts against the US Coalition Provisional Authority in the first application of the federal False Claims Act against an Iraq war contractor. The jury found the company guilty of establishing shell companies, forging invoices, inflating charges, and stealing equipment in an [...]
Both the UN and Cambodia have submitted "short lists" of possible judges for the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal that will be probing crimes against humanity by the Cambodian communist regime that allegedly killed millions in the 1970s and 80s. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday sent Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen a list of 12 [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague Friday convicted two Croatians – a journalist and a former security official – for contempt in disclosing the name of a protected witnesses in the 1997 war crimes trial of Croatian Army general Tihomir Blaskic . The identity and testimony of Johannes van Kuijk, [...]
Zimbabwean police have arrested 15 members of the opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after reportedly uncovering a collection of stockpiled weapons connected to the clandestine Zimbabwe Freedom Movement (ZFM) , a group established in 2003 for the sole purpose of overthrowing the regime of President Robert Mugabe . The 15 suspects are being [...]
China has established a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property to handle piracy and intellectual property cases nationwide, according to a court spokesman speaking Friday at a Beijing news conference held during the annual meeting of the parliamentary National People's Congress. Read a press release on the court .The announcement comes amidst continuing complaints from other [...]
