Steven Emerson : "Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed a career Federal prosecutor from Connecticut to lead a preliminary investigation into whether criminal laws were broken by US intelligence operatives involved in post-9/11 terror suspect interrogations. In April, President Obama went to CIA Headquarters and assured the Agency's career employees that no CIA officers would [...]

US Department of Defense (DOD) general counsel Jeh Johnson said Thursday that the Obama administration remains committed to closing the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by early next year. Speaking before the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security , Johnson said that the administration was still hoping to meet the [...]

Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was found guilty Friday on corruption charges and sentenced to life in prison. Chen's wife Wu Shu-Chen was also given a life sentence after the pair were convicted on charges of embezzlement, receiving bribes, forgery, and money laundering. A three-judge panel of the Taipei District Court also sentenced their son [...]

Saleh, et al. v. Titan Corporation, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 11, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Schwarzenegger, et al. v. Coleman, et al., US Supreme Court, September 11, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on legal issues surrounding California's prisons.

The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Thursday invalidated ballots from last month's presidential election from certain polls in Kandahar, Ghazni, and Paktika provinces. The ECC found "clear and convincing evidence of fraud" at 51 polling stations in Kandahar, 27 polling stations in Ghazni, and five polling stations in Paktika, including "unfolded ballots, votes for [...]

Czech lawmakers have agreed to amend the country's constitution to allow parliamentary elections to take place in November, as the Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the scheduled October elections violate the constitution. Last week, the court delayed the elections , planned for October 9 and 10, after independent lawmaker Milos Melcak filed a complaint alleging [...]

Japan continues to execute mentally ill prisoners despite a criminal code provision outlawing the practice, according to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . According to the report, while the exact number of prisoners with mental illnesses on death row is unknown, the Japanese government continuously executes prisoners with mental illnesses and leaves [...]

Three Chinese Uighur Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay since 2001 have agreed to be relocated to Palau , their lawyers told the Associated Press Wednesday. The detainees have been cleared for transfer since District Judge Ricardo Urbina ordered their release from Guantanamo last October, but difficulties in finding an appropriate place to relocate them have [...]

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday that he would begin investigating claims of war crimes by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) soldiers in Afghanistan. In a briefing, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that in addition to investigations of possible NATO crimes, the ICC would also begin looking into possible atrocities committed by [...]