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West Africa war crimes tribunal needs more funds to finish Taylor trial: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Thursday urged international donors to increase their contributions to the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , echoing a plea by prosecutor Stephen Rapp who warned Wednesday that the tribunal would be forced (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee dead in suspected suicide
A Saudi Arabian detainee held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay died Wednesday afternoon in what military officials characterized as an apparent suicide . The officials did not identify the detainee or disclose the manner of death. Approx (More) |
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UK AG denies telling soldiers not to accord Iraq detainees statutory rights protections
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday denied allegations published in The Independent that he advised Army officials to deny UK detainees in Iraq legal protections [Independent report] guaranteed under the Human Rights Act of 1998 (HRA) (More) |
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DNA Evidence and the Death Penalty
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former FBI Director William S. Sessions says that Governor Eliot Spitzer's recent proposal to expand the New York DNA database and an Ohio Supreme Court ruling liberalizing DNA testing for inmates should be welcomed (More) |
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Iran human rights lawyer acquitted by appeals court
An Iranian appeals court has acquitted human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani [Amnesty appeal; Wikipedia profile] of charges related to espionage after he spent seven months in prison, Soltani said Monday. According to Soltani, the appeals court he (More) |
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UN rights investigator says US committing violations
An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council said Friday that the US has committed human rights violations in its interrogations of terror suspects and by putting questionable restrictions on immigration. In preliminary report from what will be (More) |
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UN rights investigators begin Sudan probe
United Nations inspectors met with Sudanese officials Thursday in the first steps of a UN investigation into human rights abuses by the Sudanese government in Darfur . The seven-person team arrived in Sudan Wednesday and began their inspection in (More) |
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UK court upholds right of return for Indian Ocean islanders
The UK Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld a 2006 lower court ruling that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians [advoacy website; Wikipedia backgrounder] must be allowed to return to the group of islands comprising their homelan (More) |
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UN torture panel presses Poland for details on CIA secret prisons probe
The UN Committee Against Torture Monday urged Poland to disclose details regarding a parliamentary investigation into the presence of secret CIA prisons in the country on Monday, expressing concern that Poland participated in running terrorist s (More) |
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INDIA: Extreme Religion
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: India is a nation that takes religion seriously. Articles 25-8 of the Constitution guarantee citizens the fundamental right to religious freedom. Rickshaw drivers stick their arms up into the air when (More) |
RFK assassin sentenced to death
On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Review a 1998 statement by Sirhan attorney Larry Teeter claiming Sirhan did not commit the crime. Sirhan was denied parole for the 12th time in March 2003.
