The Cyprus government’s practice of detaining all illegal migrants seeking asylum in the island nation violates international law, Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. AI claims that Cyprus systematically detains migrants without exploring alternative methods of dealing with the individuals, in violation of European Union law. The report also alleges that the detainees are held indefinitely [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday disqualified Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from being a member of Parliament since his April contempt conviction . Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry also announced that Gilani ceased to be the country’s prime minister since the date of his conviction and claimed that the office of the [...]

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will appeal his conviction and 50-year sentence for war crimes committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone , his lawyers notified the court on Monday. In a brief filing with the Special Court for Sierra Leone his lawyers informed the court that an official notice of appeal was forthcoming. [...]

An Illinois man on Monday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois against Bureau County alleging that prison officials in the county denied him necessary HIV medication during his weeklong incarceration. Plaintiff Arick Buckles alleges in his complaint that officials at the Bureau County Jail were “were deliberately [...]

The first legal complaint against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was filed on Monday for his alleged involvement in the French sale of submarines to Pakistan in the 1990s. Olivier Morice, the lawyer acting for the victims of a 2002 bombing in Karachi, filed suit against the former president to investigate whether the assets of [...]

A New York native and terror suspect pleaded guilty Monday to charges of providing material support , including money and computer assistance, to al Qaeda . Wesam El-Hanafi plead guilty before Judge Kimba Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . El-Hanafi was charged with supporting Al Qaeda in [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. that pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) qualify as outside salespeople under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) , making them ineligible for overtime under the act. The Department of Labor (DOL) had stated that PSRs are not outside salespersons and can thus apply [...]

Italian prosecutors asked a court on Monday to sentence former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to three years and eight months in prison on fraud charges. Berlusconi, who resigned as prime minister in November, has been accused of embezzlement relating to his commercial broadcast company, Mediaset. With the former prime minister, the prosecution asked the court [...]

The US Supreme Court in a plurality opinion on Monday ruled that a defendant’s rights under the Confrontation Clause were not violated when the state permited an expert witness to testify about the results of a DNA test performed at a private laboratory, where the analysts who performed the tests did not testify, and the [...]

Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday suspended the trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic due to an error in disclosing documents to the defense lawyers. The decision came after the defense had filed a motion to reconsider the decision of May 24. The [...]