UN Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs Patricia O’Brien on Thursday urged the government of Cambodia to refrain from interfering with the UN-backed tribunal tasked with trying those alleged responsible for mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge . In a meeting in with Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to discuss recent [...]

The UK’s top judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Igor Judge , said on Wednesday that UK courts are not bound by decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) . Speaking before the Lords Constitution Committee , Judge suggested that while UK courts are not required to follow the ECHR [...]

Lawyers for convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk filed a request in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for a hearing to determine whether the FBI failed to turn over evidence that could have assisted Demjanjuk’s case. Demjanjuk was convicted in Germany in May on more than 28,000 counts of accessory to [...]

Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Eshagh al-Habib, on Thursday denied allegations in a recent UN report that human rights violations in Iran are on the rise . Al-Habib criticized the report for being poorly sourced, non-neutral and simply untrue . The report cited an increase in persecutions among political activists and journalists, detention conditions [...]

Libyan opposition forces on Thursday captured and killed former leader Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed at a press conference. Military forces loyal to the newly formed government, the National Transitional Council (NTC) , took control of Sirte on Thursday and soon after found, captured and killed Gaddafi. [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday requested that the Republic of Malawi explain why that country’s authorities failed to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during his widely reported visit there for a trade summit last weekend. Pre-Trial Chamber I of the ICC issued a resolution that asks Malawi authorities to report “any observations” regarding [...]

Citigroup Inc. on Wednesday announced a $285 million settlement to resolve charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that a subsidiary of the global financial services firm defrauded investors who bought toxic housing-related debt during the housing crisis. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI), Citigroup’s principal US broker-dealer, marketed and sold in 2007 a [...]

The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Wednesday that he will not appeal the court’s decision to proceed with a single trial for former Serbian general and alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic . The prosecutor sought to separate the indictment in order to hold one trial for Mladic’s [...]

An Oklahoma state court judge on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction against a new Oklahoma law that restricts how doctors may use abortion-inducing drugs to treat patients. Judge Daniel Owens of the District Court of Oklahoma County granted the motion for a temporary injunction filed earlier this month by the Center for Reproductive Rights and [...]

Governments should ban solitary confinement for juveniles and prisoners with mental disabilities, a UN torture expert said Tuesday in a report to the UN General Assembly . UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez told the assembly members that governments should impose solitary confinement only in exceptional circumstances and for short periods of time. Mendez [...]