Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, April 2005-March 2006, Simon Weisenthal Center, released April 23, 2006 [reporting that in 2005-05 sixteen Nazi war criminals were convicted for atrocities during World War II in Italy, Germany and Poland, a...
Uzbekistan officials announced Sunday that they will close the local office of the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) , in existence since 1995. The Uzbek Justice Ministry claims that an inquiry...
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Sunday urged Congress to work on passing an immigration bill this year, despite a current lack of agreement . Specter told CNN's Late Edition...
The Jerusalem District Court issued a landmark decision Sunday saying that the Palestinian Authority (PA) meets the legal requirements needed to be considered a state and that therefore Israel has no legal jurisdiction over...
In 2005 sixteen Nazi war criminals were convicted for atrocities during World War II in Italy, Germany and Poland, a marked increase in convictions over the previous year, according to a new report issued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center...
Thousands of Nepalese pro-democracy protesters marched toward Kathmandu Sunday despite an all-day curfew that was imposed on the city and surrounding areas last week. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators and several injuries...
A US federal prosecutor said Friday that proceeding with a US trial of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov on charges of fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion for diverting to his own...
Bancoult v. McNamara, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 21, 2006 [ruling that the federal courts were not authorized to grant compensation to the Chagossians, a group of Indian Ocean islanders forced from their...
The Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus is scheduled to begin on May 11 in Tripoli, Bulgarias foreign ministry announced Saturday....
A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have...