Prosecutor v. al-Bashir, International Criminal Court, Appeals Chamber, February 3, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available...

The Swiss Federal Council announced Wednesday that it would accept two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay . The council decided to admit the detainees for humanitarian reasons, despite the Chinese citizenship of both Uighurs and...

The US House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill to give the Supreme Court jurisdiction to review appeals of court-martial decisions. The proposed legislation, known as the Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2009...

The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland announced Wednesday that $4.6 million seized from the bank accounts of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier must be returned to his family. The decision [judgment,...

The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced on Tuesday that the country will accept one detainee from the Guantanamo Bay prison. The MFA accepted the detainee as a show of support...

The US and Russia have reached an agreement for the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty since 1991, official said Tuesday. The landmark treaty, which will replace the recently expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty , will include significant reductions [WSJ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday vacated and remanded the 22-year prison sentence for so-called "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam , finding that the district court's failure to follow proper...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday proposed a referendum to reform the nation's election system. Brown has proposed an alternative voting system in which voters would rank candidates in order of preference. He added that...

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced on Tuesday the creation of a panel to prepare the Department of Defense (DOD) for the repeal of the US military's "Don't Ask,...

Former Guinean junta aide Lieutenant Aboubacar Cherif "Toumba" Diakite is the sole government official to blame for the killing of more than 150 civilians in Conakry in September, a commission created by Guinea's junta announced on Tuesday....