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US Army officer barred from disputing legality of Iraq war at court-martial
A US military judge ruled Tuesday that 1st Lt. Ehren Watada [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], a US Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq because he felt the war is 'unlawful,' cannot argue that point in his upcoming court-marti (More) |
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Gonzales disparages judicial competence in national security cases
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used the occasion of a Wednesday speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute on the perils of judicial activism to suggest that judges are not the appropriate agents to rule on national security i (More) |
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Saddam co-defendants hanged; defense lawyer slams 'murder'
Former Saddam-era Revolutionary Court judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti [GlobalSecurity profile; BBC profile], sentenced to death with Saddam Hussein in November in connection with crimes agai (More) |
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Guantanamo Pro Bono? Atticus Finch Meets Charles Stimson
JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that lawyers who provide free legal representation for poor and/or unpopular clients - including detainees at Guantanamo Bay - should be thanked for their efforts, (More) |
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Former Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader denies 'killing fields' genocide
Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, who faces genocide charges in connection with the deaths of some 1.7 million people in Cambodia's notorious "killing fields" in the 1970s, denied in an interview published in the Phnom Penh Post Fr (More) |
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Cambodia ruling party denounces critics of Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal
The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) , the ruling party of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen [official profile; BBC profile], urged critics of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Sunday to adopt "more balanced (More) |
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Passion and Law in Iraq: Reflections on Saddam Hussein's Execution
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and a Middle East human rights lawyer who in 2003 turned down an invitation to join what became the Iraqi High Tribunal which eventually tried Saddam Hussein and sentenc (More) |
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Chile court drops tax evasion charges against Pinochet relatives
A Chilean appeals court has dropped tax evasion charges against the widow and two children of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet . In a decision Wednesday, the Santiago Court of Appeals upheld charges against Pinochet's youngest (More) |
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Lawyers scramble to stop Iraqis from hanging Saddam co-defendants
Lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti Wednesday mounted last-minute legal challenges to prevent their clien (More) |
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New UN Secretary-General promises to make Darfur top priority
New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that resolving the crisis in Darfur was "very high" on his agenda and would be one of his top priorities. Ban, whose tenure as secretary-general officially began Monday, said that he ha (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.
