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The Reckoning: Trying Saddam Hussein
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Greg Kehoe, US Department of Justice Regime Crimes Liaison to the Iraqi Special Tribunal in Baghdad from March 2004 until March 2005, says that while the current Ad Dujayl case against Saddam Hussein is not about the bi (More) |
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UK, Libya sign agreement on treatment of deported foreign nationals
The United Kingdom and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday which specifies that foreign nationals deported from the UK to Libya will not be mistreated upon their return. The agreement was signed by Britain's Ambassador to Li (More) |
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Indonesia cannot ban militant group Jemaah Islamiah, VP says
The Indonesian government cannot ban Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) because the government never formally acknowledged the group's existence, Vice President Yusuf Kalla said Sunday. Australia has called on Indonesia to outlaw the g (More) |
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Sunnis agree on condemning draft Iraq constitution, but not on referendum boycott
Twenty-one Sunni Arab organizations Saturday jointly condemned the proposed Iraqi constitution , saying in a statement that it “bears in it the germs of Iraq's division, the loss of its Arab identity and the plundering of its national weal (More) |
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Bali bombing victims call for immediate execution of 2002 bombers
Victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings are calling for the Indonesian government to immediately execute those in prison for carrying out the attacks. After new coordinated bombings in two tourist areas last Saturday, victims of the earlier (More) |
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EU sanctions Uzbekistan for failure to investigate deadly uprising
The European Union imposed sanctions on Uzbekistan [government website, in English; JURIST news archive] Monday for refusing to investigate the deadly suppression of a May uprising . The sanctions, which include suspending a cooperation accord, impo (More) |
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Dutch prosecutors try 250 for violating ID law
Dutch prosecutors have begun to try 250 of the almost 50,000 people fined for failure to produce valid identification since the country's ID law came into effect on January 1, 2005. The law, intended to stop terrorism and passed in the wake of t (More) |
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Saudi human rights group banned from visiting Gitmo prisoners
The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia , said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay . Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed, head of the (More) |
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Mugabe approves controversial changes to Zimbabwe constitution
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has approved amendments to the country's constitution [JURIST report; constitution text] that allow the government to nationalize white-owned farms and impose travel bans on those deemed anti-government. Critics (More) |
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Rehnquist's Legacy
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Bradley, a former law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, says that Rehnquist's thirty-three year legal legacy is complex and must be examined from multiple perspectives... No one person can adequatel (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
