Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who helped to track down over 1,000 Nazi war criminals after World War II, including Adolf Eichmann and the policeman who arrested Anne Frank, died in his sleep at age 96 Tuesday. Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and dean of the Los-Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center said Wiesenthal, a [...]
Mexican prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo has made a second bid to arrest former Mexican president Luis Echeverria in connection with killings of student protesters, according to a statement made Monday by Echeverria's lawyer. Dozens of students and other civilians were killed on October 2, 1968 when police and military officials opened fire on them during a [...]
British forces freed two British soldiers from an Iraqi jail Monday, though British and Iraqi officials are offering different accounts of what happened. The two freed British soldiers, thought to be undercover commandos, were arrested by the Iraqis earlier Monday for shooting two Iraqi policeman, one of whom died. Mohammed al-Walli, governor of Basra, said [...]
The trial of 15 Uzbek men , accused of organizing the May 2005 Andijan uprising which led to government troops killing as many as 500 protestors began Tuesday, but human rights groups are questioning the credibility of the proceedings. The 15 men sat in a metal cage in Uzbekistan's Supreme Court, as the charges, which [...]
FEC v. Club for Growth, Inc., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, September 19, 2005 . Read the full text of the complaint here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Mutual Fund Industry: SEC's Revised Examination Approach Offers Potential Benefits, but Significant Oversight Challenges Remain; Government Accountability Office, September 19, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Iraqi government committee Monday lodged an official request to strip former defense minister Hazem Shaalan of immunity so that he can face charges of corruption and working for Saddam Hussein's intelligence service. The request was made by the Supreme National Commission for de-Baathification, set up to oust members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from [...]
Lord Ousley, former head of Britain's Commission for Racial Equality and author of a well-known 2001 report documenting race riots in Bradford , suggested Monday that racial segregation in the UK was a serious problem and could be getting worse . Ousley urged current CRE chairman Trevor Phillips to help develop preventative measures. On Thursday, [...]
US Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , told the Senate Monday that he will vote for Judge John Roberts , nominated by President Bush as Chief Justice of the United States. Specter nonetheless acknowledged that Roberts had dodged some questions asked of him during the confirmation hearings and admitted, [...]
The US Federal Election Commission Monday sued pro-Republican political group Club for Growth in US District Court in the District of Columbia to get the group to comply with campaign finance limits after it spent at least $21 million during the 2004 general election campaign. The suit is the first to arise from controversial fundraising [...]
