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An Indonesian court on Thursday ordered lawyers for the government and former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto to attempt mediation for 30 days to settle the government's civil lawsuit against Suharto for allegedly embezzling $440...

Indonesian prosecutors filed a civil action against former President Haji Mohammad Suharto Monday, alleging that Suharto embezzled $440 million from the Yayasan Supersemar, a state-funded academic scholarship fund, between 1974 and 1998. The suit, which seeks to...

Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim Thursday appealed a lower court judge's decision dismissing his defamation suit against former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in connection with renewed allegations that Anwar is homosexual....

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales told a British parliamentary committee Tuesday that top judges were very concerned with the establishment of the new Ministry of Justice (MOJ) after they and the government...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has refused to rescind Monday's decree ordering parliament to dissolve and new elections to be held in May as the constitutional crisis in Ukraine continues. On Tuesday, Yushchenko met with...

Iran Sunday condemned a bill signed into law by President Bush Saturday authorizing US sanctions against foreign governments that provide support for Iran's nuclear program or contribute towards the country's armament. The Iran Freedom Support...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, a spokesperson for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has told the Ugandan paper Daily Monitor that the ICC would make no move to cooperate with demands by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law offers his analysis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East conflict involving Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon... Hezbollah's surprising television...

Draft resolution for a Middle East ceasefire presented by France and the United States, UN Security Council, August 5, 2006:The Security Council,PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004),...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that although the return to Haiti of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is legally and constitutionally permissible, a double standard in the...