France's far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen , who surprised observers with his strong performance in the 2002 French presidential election, has called for voters to reject the proposed European Constitution in a May 29th referendum. Le Pen has called the document "an instrument of destruction of nations," arguing that it creates a super-state at the [...]
Survivors mourned the thousands killed and urged people to be vigilant against hate in marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald , concentration camp in Germany on Sunday. Their message echoed that of a similar gathering held at Auschwitz in January. Around 56,000 people died at Buchenwald, and as many as 1.5 [...]
Cardinal Bernard Law , who resigned as the Archbishop of Boston in 2002 amid accusations that he covered up sexual abuse of children by priests {JURIST news archive], will on Monday lead one of nine memorial masses for Pope John Paul II. Members of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is traveling to [...]
Guantanamo detainee court papers, transcripts; Associated Press, April 9, 2005 . Review the full text of the court papers, organized in alphabetical order by detainee. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Following up a story reported Friday on JURIST's Paper Chase, Mexico City mayor and presidential hopeful Manuel Lopez Obrador announced to reporters outside of his home Saturday that he will surrender to authorities as soon as an arrest warrant is issued. Late Thursday, Mexico's Congress striped the mayor of immunity so he could be charged [...]
In an address to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club public affairs forum Friday, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski said that ample evidence exists to prove the use of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison was authorized by the highest levels of the US government. Karpinski served as commander of military prisons in Iraq when the [...]
During the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid defended his party's position in the current battle between Democrats and Republicans over President Bush's judicial nominees and procedures used to consider them, the second time in two weeks that major Democrats have used Saturday radio airtime to press their points. Republicans have [...]
The CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce Friday called for the US Department of Justice to investigate allegations of widespread fraud in asbestos lawsuits. The letter sent by Thomas Donohue alleges that lawyers and doctors across the country are engaged in systematic diagnostic fraud, and are bringing hundreds of meritless asbestos claims that are [...]
Anglican cleric Father Paul Williamson filed a last-minute legal objection to the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles at the civic offices in Windsor Saturday just before the couple's civil marriage ceremony in the Guildhall. Williamson claimed that Prince Charles could not remarry while heir to the British throne primarily because Queen Elizabeth [...]
Identities and details concerning the cases and treatment of some 60 Guantanamo detainees have emerged from thousands of pages of transcribed documentation filed by detainees' lawyers in US District Court in Washington, where lawsuits challenging the detentions of terror suspects are now being heard. In a pivotal case last June , the US Supreme Court [...]
