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Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that although Donald Rumsfeld is resigning as US Secretary of Defense, steps should be and will be taken to hold him accountable (More) |
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China convicts nearly 99 percent of criminal defendants: state media
China has convicted almost all criminal defendants who have come before the courts over the last nine years, the People's Court Daily reported Thursday. From January 1998 through September 2006, 6.2 million criminal defendants were tried with (More) |
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Jordanian lawyers decry Saddam death sentence
Lawyers in Jordan held a one-hour strike Tuesday to protest the death sentences [JURIST report; BBC Q/A] imposed over the weekend against Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial (More) |
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UN judicial expert slams Saddam trial, urges international court
UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Leandro Despouy Monday delivered his own scathing verdict on the Iraqi trial process which led over the weekend to a death sentence for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, urging th (More) |
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Munaf goes to the Supreme Court
Jonathan Hafetz [Associate Counsel Brennan Center, attorney for Mohammed Munaf]: "Attorneys today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the United States from transferring Mohammed Munaf, a American citizen, to the custody of the Iraqi government (More) |
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Saddam prosecutor says appeals court likely to rule mid-January
Jaafar Moussawai , chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity in Dujail, said Monday that an appeals panel would likely rule on his verdict and sentence in mid-January 2007, setting the stage for his possible execut (More) |
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US citizen facing Iraqi death penalty asks Supreme Court to block handover
Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge, asked the US Supreme Court Monday to delay his transfer to Iraqi custody while US courts consider his case. Munaf was arrested in Romania in 2005 on kidnapping charg (More) |
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European leaders balk at Saddam death sentence
Several more European leaders voiced concern Monday over the death sentence [JURIST report; BBC Q/A] handed down over the weekend for Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial tim (More) |
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Saving the Rule of Law in Iraq: Move Saddam's Appeal Abroad
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and a prominent Middle East human rights lawyer who in 2003 turned down an invitation to join the Iraqi Special Tribunal that would judge Saddam Hussein, says that even (More) |
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Hussein execution could be delayed by appeals process until 2007: Iraqi judge
Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants may not be executed until early 2007 because there is no specific time limit for the appeals process, chief investigative judge Raed Juhi said on Sunday after death sentences were handed down by the Iraqi High (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
