Iranian judges to carry guns for protection following attacks
From Monday Iranian judges will be allowed to carry handguns and may shoot if they feel threatened, according to an official speaking Sunday after the fourth attack on an Iranian judge in four weeks. Tehran...
Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...
Ashraf Qazi, special representative of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, asked Saturday that Iraq reconsider its decision to resume carrying out executions, three days after the Iraqi government approved three death sentences . The US-led occupation placed a moratorium...
Iraq's President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday authorized death sentences for three Iraqi men convicted of murder, paving the way for the first legal executions in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Talabani, who has opposed...
Address to the American Bar Association, Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner Honoring Abner Mikva, John Paul Stevens Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States, August 6, 2005 . Excerpt:Thurgood's rejection of the...
Supreme Court Justice Breyer denounces political attacks on judges
Speaking as part of a panel on the independence of the judiciary at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Tuesday, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said that controversial...
In a speech to the American Bar Association annual meeting in Chicago this weekend, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens noted "serious flaws'' in the American capital punishment system, though he stopped short of...
VA jury says killer at center of US high court case mentally fit for execution
A jury in Virginia Friday found that Daryl Renard Atkins is not mentally retarded, and upheld his death penalty conviction. Atkins had been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of...
Ismael Diallo, Chief of the Human Rights Division of the UN Operation in Burundi , has deplored ongoing rights violations in the central African state, indicating that 53 summary executions of civilians were reported in Burundi in July...
According to Bhakta Bahadur Koirala, chairman of the anti-graft commission in Nepal , ex-prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and former public works minister Prakash Man Singh have been sentenced to two years in jail and...
