As expected , the French Government on Tuesday officially declared an end to the state of emergency implemented in November to quell riots that tore through the country late last year. Few French towns actually utilized the increased police powers authorized by the state of emergency, including the ability to set and enforce curfews and [...]
Issam Ghazzawi, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Tuesday that Hussein, on trial for his involvement in the 1982 Dujail massacre , would prefer to die by firing squad rather than hanging if he is sentenced to death, which is possible under the rules of the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi [...]
Former Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Radko Mladic , who is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on genocide charges, had access to his army general's pension until mid-November 2005, according to Serbian ministers speaking to the press Tuesday. Mladic's wife and son, as well as two other Serbian [...]
A coalition of liberal interest groups has announced a new series of television commercials aimed at derailing the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. The ads, to be officially unveiled Wednesday, will question Alito's integrity and credibility, rather than his voting record as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but also the protection of core democratic values such as safety and security… My foremost duty [...]
The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) announced Tuesday that results from its investigation into allegations of voting fraud during the December 15 parliamentary elections will be announced Wednesday, but that voting results will not be released for two weeks, until the International Mission for Iraqi Elections , an independent group who agreed last week [...]
A Chilean appeals court on Monday allowed ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet to post bail for six of the nine human rights charges he faces relating to Operation Colombo . Pinochet remains under house arrest, however, because the court did not rule on the remaining three rights charges Pinochet faces, but is requiring the defense team to [...]
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has promised to push for major changes in the United Nations in an interview published Monday in the Washington Post, including reforms to the international body's human rights panel. Bolton said he will work to abolish the current 53-member Commission on Human Rights and replace it with a [...]
French President Jacques Chirac on Monday said that he plans to officially end France's state of emergency on Wednesday. The status of heightened security and increased police powers, implemented in November in response to rioting in Paris, was originally scheduled to end in late February but will be lifted ahead of schedule as a result [...]
Iran announced Monday, without further explanation, that it has ordered the closure a daily newspaper, Asia, and banned the publication of a forthcoming, bi-weekly women's periodical, Nour-e Banovan. The Culture Ministry said the Supervisory Board on the Press has agreed to the bans, and the cases will now be sent to court. The announcement signaled [...]
