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Lawyer for Gaddafi son accuses Libya of defying ICC
The lawyer for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the son of Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday accused Libyan officials of defying the International Criminal Court (ICC) b (More) |
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Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes
Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old Hungarian man, with the unlawful execution and torture of people in connection with the Holocaust. Slovakian authorities began the investigation of Csatary in September after he (More) |
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Rights groups: death penalty in US states violates human rights
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on Monday released summary findings concluding that the use of the death penalty in California and Louisiana violates human rights. The report con (More) |
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Obama appoints Guantanamo closure envoy
An anonymous source inside the US State Department said Monday that President Barack Obama is appointing attorney Clifford Sloan to be the new envoy in charge of closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay . Clifford, who has served in all thre (More) |
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US soldier pleads guilty to killing 16 Afghan civilians
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians on Wednesday in order to comply with a plea deal and avoid the death penalty. Bales admitted to leaving his post last March in the Kandahar province in ord (More) |
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Rights court urges El Salvador to allow abortion to save woman's life
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Thursday urged El Salvador to allow doctors to perform medical procedures necessary to saving a 22-year-old woman's life, including an abortion, despite the country's Supreme Court decision Wedn (More) |
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Supreme Court rules on 'actual innocence' in federal habeas petitions
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in McQuiggin v. Perkins [SCOTUSblog backgrounder; JURIST report] that "actual innocence ... serves as a gateway through which a petitioner may pass" in a federal habeas action. In Schlup v. Delo (1995) and House v. B (More) |
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Bangladesh Islamic leader arrested for 1971 war crimes
Bangladeshi authorities on Sunday arrested Jamaat-e-Islami party (JI) leader AKM Yusuf on charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Prosecutors allege that Yusuf helped to train 96 Islamic p (More) |
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Bangladesh Islamic leader sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes
A war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced Mohammad Kamaruzzam, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party (JI) , to death for atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Kamaruzzam, the fourth perso (More) |
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China sentences former government official to life in prison for accepting bribes
China's Nanjing Intermediate People's Court issued a life sentence on Saturday to Huang Sheng, the former provincial deputy governor of Shandong Province, for accepting almost $2 million in bribes from 21 organizations and numerous individuals betwe (More) |
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