The Iraqi government is unlawfully detaining and torturing thousands of detainees, according to a Monday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, “New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detention in Iraq” estimates that more than 30,000 detainees are currently being held in Iraqi prisons where they are tortured and mistreated, have no access to legal [...]

Constitutional amendments previously annulled by the Constitutional Court of Turkey were approved by a 58 percent popular vote Sunday, marking a major victory for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . The vote, which took place on the thirtieth anniversary of the 1980 coup that ushered in the current constitution, permits the implementation of [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Laurie R. Blank of Emory Law’s International Humanitarian Law Clinic and Amos N. Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law say that by continuing its deference to the executive in terrorism cases nine years after 9/11, the judiciary is abdicating its role in enforcing US domestic and international obligations… Nine [...]

An Icelandic parliamentary commission on Saturday recommended that the country’s former prime minister and three other former governmental ministers be tried for negligence for their roles in the country’s 2008 financial crisis. The nine-member Special Investigation Committee (SIC) published a 274-page report confirming a preliminary report published in April that found the extremely negligent actions [...]

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a second-hand software merchant may not invoke the first sale doctrine as a defense in copyright litigation when the software licensing agreement (SLA) specifies that the distributor maintains ownership of the software. The court held that because the SLA specified [...]

Richard Judelsohn : “The most common question I get from parents and patients regarding vaccine safety is ‘I heard on TV and read on the Internet that vaccines can damage the body. Is that true?’ The first part of my response is to explain the science, and state that studies have not established a causative [...]

Serbia’s Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor on Saturday announced charges against nine individuals for their suspected involvement in the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The charges include murder, rape, looting, destruction of property and intimidation. The nine, all former members of the Serbian paramilitary group Sakali, were arrested in March and accused of the systematic [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday ordered former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj to remain in custody while awaiting a new trial. The court determined that granting Haradinaj a provisional release would lead to increased media exposure that would “add to the already threatening atmosphere for witnesses.” Though stating [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld a jury verdict clearing Chevron of wrongdoing in the 1998 deaths of two protesters occupying a Nigerian oil platform operated by the company. Protesters Arolika Irowarinun and Bola Oyinbo, were killed in May 1998 on Parabe Oil Platform and several others were injured [...]

Two Guinea election officials were convicted Friday of election fraud and sentenced to a year in jail for irregularities with June’s presidential primary election. The convictions of Ben Sekou Sylla, president of the election commission, and his top aide, El Hadj Boubacar Diallo, have raised further tensions before the presidential run-off election scheduled for September [...]