A district court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Yukos lawyer Pavel Ivlev on charges of embezzlement, tax evasion and money laundering. Ivlev, a New York-based lawyer for the firm ALM Feldmans , worked for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and claims the arrest warrant is a response to his refusal to testify [...]
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that the French government has begun the deportation of seven foreigners found guilty of taking part in last month's rioting , making good his promise to deport any non-French citizen involved in the violence. Of the 83 foreigners arrested by police during the riots, 40 are prevented from [...]
State of Texas v. John Dominick Colyandro et al., Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Certain Motions of the Defendants to Quash the Indictments, Travis County District Court, Senior District Judge Pat Priest, December 5, 2005 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Terrorism Bill and related matters, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights, December 5, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Remarks on rendition upon departure for Europe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, December 5, 2005 . Excerpt: Renditions take terrorists out of action, and save lives. In conducting such renditions, it is the policy of the United States, and I presume of any other democracies who use this procedure, to comply with its laws [...]
Torture by Proxy: International law applicable to 'Extraordinary Renditions', UK All Party Group on Extraordinary Rendition, December 2005 . Excerpt from the Foreward by Andrew Tyrie MP: This paper shows that there is a real and clear legal imperative to find out what is going on, and to ensure that no state engages in Extraordinary [...]
An Article 32 hearing will begin next Monday for a US Army captain to determine if he should face a court martial on charges that he poorly supervised military police officers guarding suspected terrorists at the US-run Bagram detention center in Afghanistan . Army investigators say that Capt. Christopher Beiring failed to properly train the [...]
Thirty-three additional people received jail sentences in Uzbekistan Monday for their role in the May 2005 Andijan uprising after being found guilty of murder, terrorist acts and mass riots. Uzbekistan's Supreme Court said two separate trials were held for the 33 individuals resulting in sentences ranging from 12-17 years. The latest jail terms bring the [...]
French President Jacques Chirac offered apologies Monday to 13 people who were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39 months in jail. Chirac called the convictions a "judicial disaster without precedent" and said he would personally see that a thorough investigation is conducted and charges brought against the appropriate people. Six of the convictions were [...]
Liberia's president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , soon to becomethe first female president of an African state, vowed Monday that all rapists will be appropriately punished during her presidency according to a new law. The country's parliament passed legislation Thursday making individual rapes illegal for the first time in Liberia . Rapists can be sentenced to between [...]
