Four people were killed Saturday in continued violence over proposed changes to the Kenyan constitution as police tried to break up an anti-constitution rally in Mombassa, where President Mwai Kibaki , a supporter of the constitution, was visiting. Kenyans will vote in a November 21 referendum for the first major changes to the Kenyan charter [...]
Despite curfews and added security measures French youths continued to riot in the streets Saturday night. Central Paris was calm, but for the first time since rioting by disaffected Arab and African immigrant youth began 17 nights ago it has spread to another major city, Lyon . Cars and a nursery school were set ablaze [...]
A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has claimed that agents supporting Saddam Hussein murdered two defense lawyers involved in the trial of the former Iraqi president and eight co-defendants in a bid to derail the proceeding. Adel Muhammad Abbas, a lawyer for Taha Yassin Ramadan , was murdered in Baghdad last week, three [...]
Final certified results of the September 18 Afghan election for the Wolesi Jirga (lower-house of parliament) and councils in all 34 provinces were released Saturday. Among those elected were three former members of the deposed Taliban and several former Afghan commanders, some of whom have been accused of war crimes during the Afghan civil war. [...]
Beatrice B. McWaters et al. v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, November 10, 2005 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday criticised Syria for its "arbitrary detention" of human rights activists "including Kamal Labwani and all the prisoners of conscience from the Damascus Spring" during a conference in Bahrain attended by Arab leaders. The Damascus Spring followed the June 2000 death of President Hafez al-Assad, and was a period [...]
Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was formally indicted by a Durban magistrate court Saturday on corruption charges stemming from his relationship with his financial advisor Schabir Shaik who was sentenced in June to 15 years in prison for bribery and fraud. The trial, originally scheduled to begin last October, was delayed by prosecutors [...]
Attorneys acting on behalf of over a dozen Hurricane Katrina disaster victims have filed a complaint seeking class action status against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government agencies. The lawsuit accuses FEMA of wrongfully denying the plaintiffs temporary housing and seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for the plaintiffs in the form of [...]
Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Friday on Serbian state television that Theodor Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , had threatened Serbia with "excommunicat from Euro-Atlantic integration" if it failed to turn over indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic to the Hague-based court before the end of the year. [...]
The US Senate may reconsider Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts to contest their detentions as early as next week, according to negotiators on the issue. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) is expected to introduce an additional amendment on Monday that would remove the habeas corpus provision from the [...]
