The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that Col. Morris Davis , the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay may not seek money damages from his former supervisor at the Library of Congress (LOC) for termination of his employment due to op-ed articles he wrote. In 2009, Davis was [...]

The US Army has dropped one of 17 murder charges and added others, including steroid and alcohol use, in its case against Army Sgt. Robert Bales, his lawyer told reporters on Friday. Bales was charged with 17 counts of murder in March for the alleged shooting of Afghan civilians, including women and children, in a [...]

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told a Montenegrin state television station Friday that he does not think that the 1995 Srebrenica Masscre was genocide. The Srebrenica massacre took place during the Bosnian Civil War and resulted in the death of more than 7,000 Muslim men. The president acknowledged that the incident involved “serious war crimes” and [...]

Upwards of 20.9 million people worldwide work in forced labor, the International Labour Organization (ILO) , a UN agency focusing on labor rights, redported Friday. The ILO’s estimate of about 21 million people in forced labor is a revision from its 2005 “minimum estimate” that 12.3 million people were victims of forced labor. The ILO [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Sudanese government to reform its discriminatory laws and abolish both the death penalty and all corporal punishment after a young Sudanese woman was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Intisar Sharif Abdallah, who is believed to be under the age of 18, was sentenced in April [...]

The Chinese government has detained a former aide to a vice minister in China’s security ministry who is suspected of spying for the US , anonymous sources told Reuters. The former aide, whose identity is unknown, allegedly passed information to the US government over a period of years and was detained earlier this year. Neither [...]

Voters in Ireland have approved the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance aimed at improving fiscal discipline and promoting greater financial information disclosure between EU member states, according to official results Friday. In a national referendum that took place on Thursday and had a turnout of around 50 percent, 60.3 percent voted in favor of [...]

A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday granted a request by the Libyan government to postpone an order to transfer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , to ICC custody. The order will be postponed until the court decides Libya’s challenge to the admissibility of [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Leonard, the Henkel Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University, says that the ICC should adhere to a policy of complementarity to bolster its legitimacy and foster a culture of justice among its member states… The principle of complementarity, in many ways, is the centerpiece of the International Criminal Court [...]

The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , Irina Bokova , on Friday condemned the increasing number of murders of journalists in Pakistan and urged the government to investigate the crimes. Pakistani journalists Abdul Razaq Gul and Aurengzeb Tunio were recently murdered only a few days apart. Gul’s body reportedly showed [...]