Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom on Tuesday said he will allow former president Alfonso Portillo to be extradited to the US for trial. The charges against Portillo in the US stem from accusations of his involvement in money laundering and the embezzlement of $1.5 million in foreign donations from Taiwan, which were to be used to [...]

Prosecutors with Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICTB) Monday filed an application for formal charges against the detained leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , alleging crimes against humanity committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 . If the application is approved, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will be formally charged with directly and indirectly contributing [...]

The Ukrainian Parliament on Tuesday voted against hearing amendments that would have effectively freed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko by fining her rather than imposing a criminal sentence for the financial crimes she was convicted of last month. However, 268 members of parliament passed a presidential law “humanizing” economic crimes , but eliminated provisions favoring [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Hu of Duke University School of Law says that the recently enacted state-level immigration laws go against long-held American ideals and cultural values, which were exemplified in the World War II-era film Casablanca…

JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Aronson of Creighton University School of Law says that recent corporate scandals in Japan highlight the need for the reform of that country’s corporate governance structure, just as the Enron case did in the US…

The Philippine Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday allowing former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to leave the country despite accusations of corruption and electoral fraud. The court ruled 8 – 5 against government-imposed travel restrictions that started in August. Arroyo argued that she needs to travel abroad for medical treatment, unavailable in the Philippines, [...]

Six accused Somali pirates went on trial in Paris Tuesday on charges of hijacking, kidnapping and armed robbery in connection with a 2008 attack on a yacht. Then men are accused of capturing the Carre-d’As IV in the Gulf of Aden and holding a French couple hostage for two weeks, allegedly demanded a ransom of [...]

The state of Louisiana on Monday filed suit directly with the US Supreme Court arguing that undocumented immigrants should not be counted in the US census for the purpose of determining seats in the US House of Representatives . The state alleges that it was put at a disadvantage when population totals were determined and [...]

The Malaysian Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) will hold a symbolic four-day war crimes trial against former US president George W. Bush, former UK prime minister Tony Blair and other former US officials on charges in connection to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. The trial, set to begin Saturday, will be adjudicated [...]

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday that, while she is personally opposed to same-sex marriage , the decision should be left to parliamentary vote . Gillard called on the Australian Labor Party to back her adamant position that the institution of marriage has a particular meaning and should remain unchanged: Many will ask, what [...]