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UK AG says soldiers accused of abusing Iraqis will not face ICC
English Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith has told top British military officers that British soldiers will not appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges. The statement, the government's first assertion that Brit (More) |
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Reward for murdering Danish cartoonist
Anthony D'Amato : "Lawyers in Denmark should investigate their criminal law of attempt, incitement to murder, conspiracy to murder, and procuring murder. If any of these are available under Danish law, then there would be no impediment agai (More) |
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Rumsfeld rejects UN call to close Guantanamo
In comments after a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flatly rejected the United Nation's call for the US to shut down its military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , asserting that (More) |
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Annan calls for closing Guantanamo in wake of UN report
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for the United States to close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility as soon as possible, reiterating the conclusions of a 54 page report [PDF text; press release] released Thursday by a UN-ap (More) |
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UK residents in Guantanamo can seek order requiring UK intervention with US
A UK High Court judge has ruled that three UK residents detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 can seek a court order requiring the British government to petition the US government for their release. The UK government has thusfar said th (More) |
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Hear No Evil: Congress, FISA and NSA Surveillance
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that decisions by the Republican leaders of two congressional committees not to launch probes into warrantless NSA surveillance of Americans contrary to FISA, th (More) |
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Haiti's Election: Right Result, For the Wrong Reason
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctl (More) |
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US dismisses UN call to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp
The United States has dismissed as a "discredit to the UN" a report [PDF text; press release] released Thursday by UN special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Commission on Human Rights calling on t (More) |
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Nepal army, rebels violating human rights laws: UN report
The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and Maoist rebels are violating international human rights laws , according to a new report released by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Thursday. The OHCHR-Nepal report outlines (More) |
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Iraqi Interior Ministry investigating latest torture, death squad claims
Iraq's Interior Ministry Thursday announced an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in Iraq, either working for, or claiming to work for the ministry itself. The US military says it recently detained 22 men in p (More) |
Sherman Antitrust Act passed by Congress
On July 2, 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act became the first anti-monopoly legislation passed by Congress.
Learn more about the Sherman Act.
