A judge for the US District Court in the District of Arizona on Friday denied motions to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the controversial Arizona immigration law . Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) and Sheriffs Joe Arpaio and Paul Babeu had filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit claiming the plaintiffs, including [...]

A UK court began inquests Monday into the July 2005 London transit bombings that killed 52 people and injured 700 others. Lady Justice Hallett is presiding over the inquests with the victims’ families to determine whether each death was the result of an unlawful killing under British law. The main issue is whether some of [...]

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced Monday that police have arrested Mal Rt CEO Zoltan Bakonyi on criminal negligence charges for the company’s role in last week’s Akja chemical spill . Orban also announced an emergency law that was easily passed allowing the government to take control of Mal Rt, which owned the plant from [...]

French authorities have arrested alleged Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) leader Callixte Mbarushimana under a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) , the ICC announced Monday. The court charged Mbarushimana, a former UN employee, with five counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes for acts committed by [...]

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty on Sunday marked the 8th World Day against the Death Penalty , specifically urging the US, Iran and China to end the death penalty . French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner encouraged all countries that still embrace the death penalty to abolish it and set up a moratorium on [...]

The Belgrade Appeals Court on Monday overturned the war crimes conviction of former Bosnian officer Ilija Jurisic and ordered a retrial. The court reasoned that September 2009 proceedings in the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court provided insufficient evidence , releasing Jurisic and overturning his 12-year prison sentence. Jurisic, accused of coordinating an [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saroop Ijaz, an advocate before the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, says that the country’s courts should more often limit themselves to issues brought before them, so that the other branches of government and the people of the Pakistan may first have the opportunity to grapple with particularly contentious issues… The [...]

The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Friday unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the controversial Human Security Act (HSA) 2007 , ruling the petitioners lacked legal standing to challenge the law because it had not caused them any actual damage. In its decision, the court noted that law enforcement officers’ reluctance to enforce the law [...]

Two Greek police officers accused in the shooting death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos , which sparked violent demonstrations and riots in 2008, were found guilty Monday and sentenced to prison. A panel of judges and jurors found Officer Epameinonta Korkonea guilty of intentional murder and sentenced him to a term of life imprisonment plus 15 [...]

An Iraqi court on Sunday acquitted two men accused of killing six British soldiers in Basra in 2003. The court ruled that it had insufficient evidence to prosecute Hamza Hateer and Mussa Ismael al-Fartusi for their participation in the “Red Cap murders” . The incident involved a mob of 400 people attacking a police station [...]