Lawrence A. Franklin , an analyst for the US Department of Defense, plans to plead guilty to charges that he provided classified information to an Israeli official and a pro-Israeli lobbying group, according to the US District Court clerk's office in Alexandria, VA. Franklin's indictment stems from allegations that he divulged top secret information in [...]
In the first case of a transfer from a UN tribunal to a Balkan country, Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Stankovic has been moved from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague to be tried in a Bosnian state court. Tribunal spokesman Matias Hellman confirmed the move Thursday. The decision [...]
US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has ordered the release of photographs and videotapes of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , despite government arguments that the images could damage America's image in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ruling comes in an ACLU lawsuit seeking information on the treatment of detainees in US custody and [...]
The defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein has filed a motion petitioning the Iraqi High Criminal Court, previously called the Iraqi Special Tribunal , to delay the first of Hussein's several expected trials set to begin on October 19 . Khalil Dulaimi said he only gained access to the prosecution's evidentiary file over the weekend, and [...]
The US Senate has approved the nomination of Judge John Roberts to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States by a vote of 78-22 . Roberts is expected to be sworn in at a ceremony at the White House later today. Previously in JURIST's Paper Chase… Roberts headed for bipartisan Senate confirmation [...]
The United Nations Wednesday defended its decision approving Tunisia to host a UN summit on Internet access in the developing world, despite protests that the country is unfit due to repeated allegations of press and civil society abuses. The Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) issued a report earlier this week saying the country should not be [...]
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has said that he will veto a ban on human cloning approved by the state senate Wednesday by a margin of 21-12. The ban, previously approved by the Wisconsin Assembly in June, would prohibit reproductive cloning and Doyle said it would also hinder research for curing certain diseases and would harm [...]
The European Union will hold a meeting Sunday to discuss Austria's objections to beginning negotiations with Turkey on the country's proposed membership to the EU . All 25 of the EU nations must agree on a negotiating mandate before discussions with Turkey can begin, and Austria refused to vote in favor of the mandate Thursday, [...]
Leading Thursday's international brief, the current president of the UN Security Council , Philippine Ambassador Lauro Baja condemned the renewed violence in the Darfur region of Sudan , and warned that the Security Council was seriously concerned by the continued violations of the April 2004 cease-fire by both government and rebel forces. UN relief coordinator [...]
A Tokyo court dismissed a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Thursday that claimed his visits to a Shinto war shrine violated Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. The court denied the plaintiffs' requests for 3.9 million yen ($34,433) in compensation and ruled that Koizumi's visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine were private acts. [...]
