Sean Hayes : "As most of us in Korea realize, many "peaceful" protests have too often turned violent at night. In the not so distant past, protests over the importation of US beef led to, amongst other things, numerous injuries to police officers, burned buses, Seoul-wide traffic congestion and lost revenues for businesses. Many of [...]

Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Richard Goldstone formally presented the group's findings to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Tuesday. In his opening remarks , Goldstone defended the report against criticism from Israel, which has called the report biased . Goldstone denied this allegation and said that Israel had [...]

Rempfer, et al. v. Sharfstein, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 29, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Former Enron Broadband Services (EBS) CEO Joe Hirko was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for misrepresenting to investors the capabilities of Enron's broadband service. Hirko pleaded guilty last October to one count of wire fraud for issuing a press release falsely claiming that EBS had integrated a new feature into its broadband service. [...]

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori pleaded guilty Monday to multiple counts of illegal wiretapping and bribery. Fujimori was charged with ordering former Peruvian intelligence director Vladimiro Montesino to use government funds to secretly wiretap politicians, journalists, and other prominent Peruvians and to bribe congressmen and journalists to join his party and to support his 2000 [...]

The Joint Task Force responsible for reviewing the Guantanamo Bay detainees on Monday released a list of 78 detainees cleared for transfer. The list contains the nationalities and the number of detainees to be released but does not specifically identify the detainees by name. It also does not list where these detainees will ultimately be [...]

The head of the Honduran interim government Roberto Micheletti said Monday that he may lift restrictions on constitutional rights imposed Sunday by the end of the week. The de facto government passed an executive decree late on Sunday night suspending five articles in the Honduran Constitution for 45 days: personal freedom (Art. 69), freedom of [...]

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling on Monday urged banks to cut back on bonuses immediately instead of waiting for legislation following an agreement reached at last week's G-20 summit. In a speech to the Labour Party conference, Darling said that he hoped banks around the world would all cut back on bonuses but [...]

Omar, et al. v. Geren, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, September 28, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Shawqi Omar.

Zimbabwe's Supreme Court dismissed charges Monday against ten people, including rights activist Jestina Mukoko , who had been charged with conspiring against President Robert Mugabe . The court held that Mukoko, who is the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) , was tortured by security forces and denied access to legal and medical assistance [...]